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Elderbear is subverting the dominant paradigm.'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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    Chaos: Making a New Science
    by James Gleick

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    Living My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Emma Goldman

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

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    When Corporations Rule the World
    by David C. Korten

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    Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
    by Albert Camus

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    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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    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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    Siddhartha (Modern Library)
    by Hermann Hesse

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    Hope for the Flowers
    by Trina Paulus

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

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    Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
    by Thich Nhat Hanh

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    Dead Cities

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    Annals of the Former World
    by John McPhee

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

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    Jonathon Livingston Seagull a story
    by Richard Bach

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    Ecotopia
    by Ernest Callenbach

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    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo)
    by C.G. Jung

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    The Ages of Gaia
    by James Lovelock

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    The Myth of Male Power
    by Warren Farrell

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    Iron John: A Book About Men
    by Robert Bly

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    The White Goddess
    by Robert Graves

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    Evil and the God of Love
    by John Hick

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    Christ and Culture
    by H. Richard Niebuhr

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    The Stranger (A Vintage Book, V-2)
    by Albert Camus

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    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

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    General Semantics Seminar 1937: Olivet College Lectures
    by Alfred Korzybski

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    Ender's Game Gift Edition (Ender Quartet)
    by Orson Scott Card

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    Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
    by Orson Scott Card

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    Pastwatch The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
    by Orson Scott Card

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    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving

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    Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
    by Martin Luther King Jr.

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    Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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    Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
    by Pat Frank

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    Lucifer's Hammer
    by Jerry Pournelle

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    The Great Divorce
    by C.S. Lewis

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    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell

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    The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel
    by John Nichols

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    The Nirvana Blues: A Novel
    by John Nichols

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    The Magic Journey: A Novel
    by John Nichols

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    Jihad Vs.McWorld
    by Benjamin R. Barber

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    Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    by Paulo Freire

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    The Origin of the Family: Private Property and the State
    by Friedrich Engels

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    The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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    I'd Rather Teach Peace
    by Colman McCarthy

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    Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
    by George Thompson

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    A Theory of Justice
    by John Rawls

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    Political Liberalism (Columbia Classics in Philosophy)
    by John Rawls

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    Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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    The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)
    by Lois Lowry

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    The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
    by M. Scott Peck

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    Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
    by John Houghton

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    The Pushcart War

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    The Evolution of Cooperation
    by Robert Axelrod

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    Cadillac Desert
    by Marc Reisner

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    The Courage to Be
    by Paul Tillich

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    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    by Malcolm Gladwell

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    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber

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    Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
    by Antonio Damasio

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