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…
Author: David Guenette
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,…
EVs are DOA, Haven’t You Heard?
This is critique of critics of EVs. This note is about the nonsense of EV nay-saying. Keep in mind, please, that this is not coming from a person in love…
Who is Lying? Those Who Say Fossil Fuel Companies Engage in Misinformation and Influence Campaigns against Renewable Energy, or Those Who Say Renewable Energy Advocates Have Pants on Fire?
Let me answer this obviously rhetorical question right up front: it is the fossil fuels industry that is a goddam liar. This conclusion isn’t a matter of cherry-picking information. Various internal…
Dear Josephine Manuscript off to the Editor… and a Kill Well Award!
Yay for me, at any rate, that my manuscript for Dear Josephine is handed off to my editor, although my editor may be having a different reaction altogether. Dear Josephine,…
Climate Fiction Quicky: The Deluge, by Stephen Markley
The Deluge is just that, a deluge of a book, clocking in at 880 pages, and there were plenty of times while reading the tome that I kept remembering that…