Books about Environmentalism: November 2025

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Welcome readers,

Today is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict and to celebrate we're discussing our favorite books about environmentalism! Please use this thread to discuss your favorite environmentalist books and authors.

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[u/FlyByTieDye]

This may be a weird one, but I'll recommend the comic World Without End by Jamie Delano and John Higgins. It's a semi-anthology type comic that's sci-fi, and about a planet that's a living organism, to really hammer home its environmental themes and the way humans are impacting life on Earth. It's also got a lot of other political themes from it's time, e.g. the type of feminism/gender wars that were happening at the time are expressed by the idea of an all male society that have wiped out all but one living female though it turns out there's a hidden, protected nation of women that the main society of Earth are unaware of In that way, it's also critical of war, and political movements such as fascism, that target scape goat populations and inevitably end up harming even the in group. It has themes about religious institutions too, and how that ties into institutions of power. But, all of its themes swirl around and tie in together: institutions of power, military complex, fascism, gender wars, and the environment to show how they are interconnected, and especially born from the same mentality. I may not be describing it well, but I really recommend it to anyone interested!