Kill Well, Berkshires in 2026; Dear Josephine, Berkshires in 2029
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The Climate Crisis is Now Widely Accepted, But Will This Translate into Votes to Take Action?
Here’s an interesting piece, from Medium’s George Dillard (The New Climate): “The Next Climate Perception Battle: Americans now accept climate change — but they still need a more complete understanding”…
Climate Fiction Quickies: A Friend of the Earth, T. C. Boyle; The Forcing, Paul E. Hardisty; Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins
I read climate fiction—a would-be genre that covers a lot of ground—and I post reviews of such books when I get around to it. What is interesting about these three…
A Decade’s Worth of Growing Concern: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Poll Shows That Most People Want More Climate Change-related News
An article published by Covering Climate Now, January 4, 2024, reports on the latest study from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, an effort widely considered “the gold standard”…
The Biggest Threat to Climate Progress is How Stupid We Can Be When We Write About It
I have a problem. I’m curious and eager to learn, but I’ve a deadly addiction. That addiction—deadly, I guess, only in so far as it often results in my wanting…
Climate Change and the Berkshires
My book series, The Steep Climes Quartet, focuses on one little spot in this big world, and that spot the Berkshires, in Massachusetts. The story across the series spans nearly…
Paying the Climate Piper: Household Budgets as Climate Fiction Subject Matter
In my climate fiction series, The Steep Climes Quartet, I’m taken great pains to be realistic, and have grounded my scenarios in consensus science, although, of course, writing about the…
We Have to Pay for Fixing the Greenhouse Gases Crisis: The Climate Fight in All of Its Complexities and Confusion about Costs… and Politics
Like it or not, cost is a big deal when it comes to resolving climate change, and the cost is high, but the climate progress movement doesn’t like to talk…
A False Argument on Climate Fiction
As readers of my posts know, I’m attentive to climate fiction, whether in the form of reading and reviewing or in exploring the efficacy of climate fiction to help readers…
Climate Fiction Quickie: The Survival Game, Nicky Singer
I saw an announcement in the Climate Fiction Writers League newsletter last month (or whenever… times seems more and more elastic as I get older, but also more brittle, too,…