On my shelf

Documents how the mass use of pesticides, DDT above all, harmed birds, rivers and people. Its careful evidence helped start the modern environmental movement and led to the US ban on DDT.

Argues that "sustainability" has been stretched until it can justify almost anything, and that the word on its own won't get us out of the ecological crisis.

Explains climate change as a conversation with his daughter: how our use of fossil energy warms the planet, in plain terms and plain numbers.

Argues that facing the possibility of collapse, emotionally and together, is more useful than either denial or despair.

A Latin American critique of extractivism (mega-mining, fracking, agribusiness) and of the development model behind it, with proposals for a just transition.

Colonists from Earth log a forest planet and enslave the people who live there: a short novel about exploiting land and people at the same time.

A woman in a rural clinic pieces together what happened to her and her daughter. The unnamed threat in the fields is often read as agrochemical poisoning.

A girl in the Buenos Aires suburbs eats earth and sees what happened to the dead, most of them women lost to violence.