Welcome to the “Population Connection Page Turners” book club! Meetings to discuss books or long-form publications relevant to population issues are held quarterly.
Joining a Population Connection Page Turners meeting offers an opportunity to expand your knowledge and meet other Population Connection members and Population Connection staff. Please reach out to engage@popconnect.org if you have any questions about the club or how to participate. We hope you’ll be able to join us!
This compelling anthology brings together twenty powerful essays that reflect on a year marked by environmental upheaval and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. From wildfires and biodiversity loss to innovative efforts to protect wildlife, these stories offer both urgency and hope as we consider humanity’s evolving relationship with the planet.
Whether you read the entire collection or just a few essays, we’d love for you to join the conversation. Feel free to bring your favorite quotes, questions, or reflections to share.
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet – By Hannah Ritchie
What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures – By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
As Long as the Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock – By Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother – By Peggy O’Donnell Heffington
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future – By David Attenborough
Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice – By Rebecca Kormos
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion – By Dr. Diana Greene Foster
Walking with Gorillas: The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet – By Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity – By Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockstrom, and Per Espen Stoknes
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World – By Gaia Vince
The Book of Hope – By Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World – By Katharine Hayhoe
8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World – By Jennifer D. Sciubba
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist – By Kate Raworth
The Ministry for the Future – By Kim Stanley Robinson
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger – By Matthew Yglesias
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future – By Elizabeth Kolbert
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? – By Alan Weisman
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World – By Paul Morland
The New Climate War – By Michael E. Mann