The Browser - Guest Newsletter: Five Books

Economics and the Environment

If you want to take an economy that's wholly dependent on fossil fuels and turn it into a low-carbon one it's going to be expensive, says economist Dieter Helm—and the sooner we face up to that reality the better. He recommends books to help us think through the relationship between economics and the environment, including one that really shines a spotlight on our own, individual behaviour). Read more

The Best Climate Fiction

As Rudyard Kipling said, "No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story"—so it's no surprise that some of the most powerful explorations of the challenges we face with climate change have taken the form of novels. Some refer to a new genre: climate fiction or 'cli-fi'—though novelists have been imagining climate change since at least Jules Verne. Read more

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