Elderbear is hibernating ...'s "Most Important Books on the Planet"

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These books are ones that I believe need to be widely read and taught in order for our species to survive the various threats to our existence that are on the horizon – most of which we pose to ourselves. These books are necessary, but probably not sufficient.

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    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    by Jared Diamond

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    The Future of Life
    by Edward O. Wilson

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    The Hydrogen Economy
    by Jeremy Rifkin

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    Fast Food Nation
    by Eric Schlosser

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    Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
    by Daniel C. Dennett

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    Ishmael
    by Daniel Quinn

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    The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
    by Riane Eisler

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    When Society Becomes an Addict
    by Anne Wilson Schaef

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  10. 14.
    Chaos: Making a New Science
    by James Gleick

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  11. 15.
    Living My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Emma Goldman

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  12. 16.
    Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
    by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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  13. 17.
    When Corporations Rule the World
    by David C. Korten

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  14. 19.
    Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
    by Albert Camus

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  15. 20.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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    The Revolt of the Masses
    by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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    The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
    by Brian Swimme

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  19. 27.
    Answer to Job (Routledge Classics)
    by C.G. Jung

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    The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior
    by Helen E. Fisher

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  21. 30.
    Siddhartha (Modern Library)
    by Hermann Hesse

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  22. 33.
    Hope for the Flowers
    by Trina Paulus

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  23. 34.
    The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
    by Richard Preston

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    The Stand
    by Stephen King

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    Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics
    by Starhawk

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  28. 39.
    Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition
    by Lao Tsu

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    Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala
    by Vaclav Havel

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  31. 43.
    The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
    by Edward Abbey

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  32. 44.
    Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
    by Thich Nhat Hanh

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    Dead Cities

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  35. 47.
    Annals of the Former World
    by John McPhee

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  36. 48.
    Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    by Douglas Hofstadter

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  37. 49.
    Jonathon Livingston Seagull a story
    by Richard Bach

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  38. 50.
    Ecotopia
    by Ernest Callenbach

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