Best Books For Fully Understanding Our Predicament?

[palotin]

I'm curious what you feel are the most honest accounts of where the planet is heading. I'm not deliberately searching out the most apocalyptic presentations, but I don't want anything that pulls punches in favor of a rosy afterward on "what we can do". I'd be especially interested in books that project likely conditions for different regions of the world if current trends and practices continue (equatorial Africa, or the Pacific Northwest for example). Considering the context, it bears mentioning that I am familiar with Derrick Jensen.

[CommunityBeliever]

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[occurin]

Paul and Anne Ehrlich's One with Nineveh is a great survey from a liberal perspective. The science is really good (they are both academic ecologists). I didn't find it sensationalistic at all.