Books like How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates reads as urgent, pragmatic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Confessions of an economic hit man

Perkins, John · 2004

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

Green marketing

Jacquelyn A. Ottman · 1993

Same business feel

62% genome match

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil · 2016

Same tech feel

59% genome match

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

Thom Hartmann · 1998

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

Let my people go surfing

Yvon Chouinard · 2005

Same business feel

59% genome match

Drawdown

Paul Hawken · 2017

Same nonfiction feel

83% genome match

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells · 2019

Both explore climate change

83% genome match

The Right To Be Cold

Sheila Watt-Cloutier · 2015

Both explore climate change

61% genome match

This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein · 2013

Both explore climate change

83% genome match

Overdressed

Elizabeth L. Cline · 2012

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Globalization and its discontents

Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Windfall

McKenzie Funk · 2014

Both explore climate change

59% genome match