LJDC – MArch Book Recommendations

This Month’s Book Recommendations
The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America, by Charlotte Alter
Viking (February 18, 2020) 368 pages
A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress–a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it); they are utilizing big tech but still want to regulate it (because they understand how it works). More

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Moveby Sonia Shah
Bloomsbury Publishing (June 2, 2020) 400 Pages
A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting–predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change.
The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet’s migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. More