{"id":33844,"count":32,"description":"From novels to science books, we have a large collection of recommendations of the best books to read about the environment and environmental issues. There is evidence that limiting climate change and preserving biodiversity are rapidly moving up the political agenda globally, but the scale of the problem seems to be mounting at least as fast as the commitment to tackling it.\r\n\r\nYou can read our interviews looking at specific issues in more detail. Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes looks at The Politics of Climate Change<\/a>. Sociologist and author Rebecca Altman recommends books on pollution<\/a>. If you're interested in energy transition, renewable energy expert Chris Goodall has some suggestions<\/a>.\r\n\r\nProfessor Juliet Schor looks at consumption and the environment and writer and journalist Adam Minter, who has covered the topic for years, discusses the trash trade.\u00a0 Science writer Gaia Vince talks about the Anthropocene<\/a> and the geologist, Jan Zalasiewicz, talks about Anthropocene oceans.\r\n\r\nIf you're a fan of Guardian<\/em> columnist George Monbiot,<\/a> he's chosen an essential reading list for understanding our environmental challenges.\r\n\r\nYou can also find books about the environment and environmental issues in some of our other interviews, such as Clearing the Air<\/a> by Tim Smedley, which was chosen as one of the best science books of 2019 by the Royal Society. In addition, we have a short interview with Vaclav Smil about his book, Growth: from Microorganisms to Megacities<\/em><\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/environment\/","name":"Environmental Books","slug":"environment","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/33844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=33844"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=33844"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=33844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}