Here are the lists, first for the last decade:
Amazon UK's top 10 environment & ecology books 2000-10:
1. Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
Alastair Fothergill
2. British Isles: A Natural History
Alan Titchmarsh
3. Life
Michael Gunton and Martha Holmes
4. The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker and Richard North
5. The Revenge of Gaia
James Lovelock
6. It's Not Easy Being Green
Dick Strawbridge
7. An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore
8. Planet Earth: The Photographs
Alastair Fothergill
9. An Appeal to Reason
Nigel Lawson
10. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Jared Diamond
It's basically a BBC whitewash, with numbers one, two, three, six and eight all BBC books to accompany high-profile television series. Nigel Lawson's sceptical book makes an appearance at nine.
Now, for this year's list:
Amazon UK's top 10 environment & ecology books for 2010:
1. How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything
Mike Berners-Lee
2. The Hockey Stick Illusion
A. W. Montford
3. The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker and Richard North
4. Cradle to Cradle
Michael Braungart
5. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
James Lovelock
6. Born Wild: One Man's Passion for Lions
Tony Fitzjohn
7. The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living
Mark Boyle
8. Small Is Beautiful
E.F. Schumacher
9. Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
10. When a Billion Chinese Jump
Jonathan Watts
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