History of the Climate Crisis

Trouet, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings, glossary.

The King’s Mirror and fifteenth-century papal letters.

Wickman, “Wabanaki Power, 1690–1710.”

Williams, “Change of Climate” (1770s?, as printed).

Zilberstein, A Temperate Empire, introduction.

McNeill and Engelke, The Great Acceleration, complete book with emphasis on chapters 1–2 and introduction/conclusion.

Cruikshank, “Perspectives from Oral Tradition.”

Bill McKibben, The End of Nature, pp. 3–46.

Davis and Todd, “Decolonizing the Anthropocene.”

Ellis, letter to Anthropocene Working Group (2023).

Oreskes and Conway, Merchants of Doubt, introduction, chapter 6 and conclusion.

Shapin, “Is There a Crisis of Truth?,” Los Angeles Review of Books.

Hamblin, Arming Mother Nature, introduction.

Knowles, “Climate Change on Korean Peninsula.”

Dominic O’Key, “Why Look at Taxidermy Animals? Exhibiting, Curating and Mourning the Sixth Mass Extinction Event.”

Shapiro, How to Clone a Mammoth.

Optional: Carey, “How Glaciers Became an Endangered Species.”

Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, pp. 228–257, 266–268.

Juliana v. United States (2019).

Spears, “Intersectional Activism and Climate Justice.”