@KikiElara@glasgow.social @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Agreed.
All of John Brunner's "Club of Rome Quartet" novels pack a punch.
Stand on Zanzibar (apocalypse by over population)
The Jagged Orbit (apocalypse by polarization and guns)
The Sheep Look Up (apocalypse by pollution)
The Shockwave Rider (apocalypse by internet and computer tracking)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brunner_(author)#Literary_works#Literary_works)
@JBrianCoyle@mas.to @scifi@a.gup.pe
In Clarke's Before Eden, astronauts visit Venus, and thoughtlessly bury their garbage at the landing site. The highest evolved Venusian animal eats it, and is killed by Earth microbes. The Venusian ecosystem follows.