Climate Change and Class
In America it remains impolite to talk about class. In America class is all about economics, so the outdated and irrelevant British sense of class of which most of us…
Author: David Guenette
WOW. I Never Meta-Hypocrisy I Didn’t Like, or, Who is Robert Bryce and Why Does He Write Such S***?
I confess that Robert Bryce sets me off. Who is he? Here’s his own capsule biography: I am an author, podcaster, and filmmaker. I’ve been reporting on the energy sector…
Climate Fiction Quickies: Snowflake: A Novel, by Arthur Jeon; Denial, a Novel, Jon Raymond; The Great Transition, by Nick Fuller Googins
Here are three more climate fiction novels reviewed. Two of them are terrific: Snowflake, by Arthur Jeon, and The Great Transition, by Nick Fuller Googins. Denial, a Novel, Jon Raymond,…
Kill Well, Berkshires in 2026; Dear Josephine, Berkshires in 2029
Sign up on site for news about the publication schedule for Dear Josephine and other news about The Steep Climes Quartet. Click here to sign up. I’ve been wearing the…
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…