June 23, 2024
1958: Jarrett, Henry (Ed), Perspectives on Conservation, in particular the article by Galbraith, How Much Should a Country Consume?.
1962 & 1974: Murray Bookchin, Our Synthetic Environment.
1971: Norman E. Borlaug, Mankind and Civilization at another Crossroad, McDougall Memorial Lecture to the Conference of the 16th session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation.
Norman Borlaug is often called “the father of the Green Revolution” and is the recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
1972: Donella Meadows et al.. The Limits to Growth.
1972: Barbara Ward and René Dubos, Only One Earth — The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet.
This work was commissioned by the secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972, Stockholm) to provide factual background and a conceptual framework for the conference in Stockholm in June 1972.
1972: The Ecologist, A Blueprint for Survival.
Another text in advance of the Stockholm conference.
1972: Sicco Mansholt, The Mansholt Letter.
When Sicco Mansholt was European Commissioner for Agriculture, after having read The Limits to Growth, he wrote an open letter to the president of the Commission, in favor of a policy of degrowth.
1973: Barbara Ward et all, Who Speaks for Earth?.
Seven speeches given at the UN Conference on the Human Environment (1972, Stockholm).
1973: Growth and its implications for the future. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, ninety first Congress.
Part I, May 1 1973, contains the statements made at the hearing, and in the appendix the full text of a number of books and articles, including The Limits to Growth and Only One Earth.
Part II and Part III are the result of a MIT graduate Seminar on Sustainable Growth, including numerous papers and articles.
Part IV covers the hearings on June and July, 1974.
1973: Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality.
1974: Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity.
1978: K. William Kapp, The Social Costs of Business Enterprise.
1979: National Research Council, Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment.
1995, Peter Menzel: Material World — A Global Family Portrait and 1998, Faith D’Aluisio: Women in the Material World.
2014, Patagonia Films: DamNation: The Problem with Hydropower.
2018: Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics — Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.
Kate Raworth is also a talented speaker. My favorite intervention of hers is on YouTube.
2019: Jean-Marc Jancovici, Energie et changement climatique.
A 20 hours class, in 8 sessions, at Mines ParisTech, in French.
Jancovici was interviewed by Nate Hagens, on The Great Simplification podcast. August 16, 2023, 1:20 in English.
2021: Jean-Marc Jancovici et Christophe Blain, Le monde sans fin — Miracle énergétique et dérive climatique..
The top seller in France in 2022, among all books, not just comics. There is a copy at the Los Altos library.
There is an English translation for the UK market (paper and EPUB), and US version as well.
2023: Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Warmer Times — A conversation on evidence for effective and equitable climate action.
On Monday, April 10, 2023, the King Center on Global Development hosted a Speaker Series on Good Economics for Warmer Times with 2019 Nobel laureate Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT.
Professor Duflo discussed the disproportionate impact of climate change on people in poverty, and why countries need to invest in policy innovation, not just technological innovation, to confront it. She highlighted why evidence on the impact of climate solutions is crucial for effective and equitable climate action.
2024: Esther Duflo, Climat : les solutions de la prix Nobel Esther Duflo pour les pays pauvres sur le Podcast « Chaleur humaine » du journal Le Monde.
Comment la transition peut-elle prendre en compte les pays et les habitants du Sud ? L’argent promis dans les négociations internationales est-il versé aux pays du Sud ? Comment la transition peut-elle aider des populations à sortir de la pauvreté ? Quelles sont les pistes pour réussir une transition juste à l’échelle globale ?
2016: Trancrède Ramonet, Ni Dieu ni Maître — Une histoire de l’anarchisme.
A five hour documentary in four parts: La volupté de la destruction (1840-1914), La mémoire des vaincus (1911-1945), Des fleurs ou des pavés (1945-1968), Les réseaux de la colère (1965-2012).
2017: Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny — Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
2019: Isabelle Attard, Comment je suis devenue anarchiste.
2020: Denis Colombi, Où va l’argent des pauvres.
2021: Boualem Sansal, Lettre d’amitié, de respect et de mise en garde aux peuples et aux nations de la terre.
« Pourquoi les humains sont-ils si bêtes ? Pourquoi se laissent-ils traîner par le bout du nez ? Les ânes ont de longues oreilles ridicules par lesquelles ils se font bêtement attraper, mais quand ils ne veulent pas avancer, rien ne peut les forcer à obéir. »
2023: Denis Colombi, Pourquoi sommes-nous capitalistes (malgré nous) ?
2023: Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America.