Copyright Euronews Green Looking for an inspiring climate read? Here are five books I mulled over in 2024. Books read, songs replayed, life moves made. The close of the year invites a stocktake, however you count it. As a certified bookworm, I am rarely without written company. And as an environmental journalist, I am often drawn to the ‘nature writing’ section of bookshops. But here I recommend a small collection of books from different genres and years. All have deepened my thinking on the climate crisis in some way, and all would make great companions in 2025 if you’ve not come across them yet. In their different ways, they give hope that it’s not too late to heal or grow. They delve into pain to take us somewhere better, and strengthen us for action. Related Is silence golden? What a change expert says about family climate conversations at Christmas time From destruction to deadly heat, photojournalists capture the reality of climate change in 2024 Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, 1992 First up is a book that, for me, would not be a great exaggeration to describe as life-changing. Certainly immensely revitalising. Written by US poet and psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés in 1992, it is a work profoundly concerned with the wellbeing of women . Once I got over my initial (British) reservations about the title, I found myself in a unique and expansive landscape. By turns snow-blasted, rivered, and fairytale-forested, it moves from old stories to psychological commentary in order to guide women back to our instinctive nature. Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissas Pinkola Estés, who is a cantadora – a keeper of old stories in the Latina tradition. It’s inherently ecological – fully alive to the harms done to the Earth […]