
My "A" list of books on energy, ecology, environment, evolution, population, Middle East, agriculture, water, natural history, collapse of civilizations, etc -- nearly all of these references touch on some aspect of the situation we're in.
Howard Bucknell III. 1981. Energy and the National Defense. University of Kentucky Press.
Steve Salerno. 2005. SHAM. How the Self-Help Movement Made
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels. 2005. Selling Sickness. How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients. Nation Books.