Learn more for yourself this Earth Day 2025 (pc: Alfo Medeiros).

The simple answer is we humans have found too many different ways to mess with our planet. Here’s a starter list we recommend to get a broad view on what’s going on.

1. The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert (2014) if you can only read one
2. Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013) Indigenous people have always known
3. The Great Displacement Jake Bittle (2023) Americans forced to move
4. The Treeline Ben Rawlence (2022) what are trees telling us?
5. The New Climate War Michael E. Mann (2021) why deniers deny
6. Cobalt Red Siddharth Kara (2023) the problem in our phones

If you liked these reads and want to keep learning, find more on the Deep Dives page on Karmalize!