Can Climate Fiction Help with Climate Change?
The question in the title above seems like a good one for me to ask, considering that I write climate fiction. I also do other things, including living as best…
Author: David Guenette
We Love Cheap Gas
Yes, the headline here qualifies as a truism, which means that the claim is so obvious as to not be questioned. Even climate change activists—at least most of us—like cheap…
Coal In Your Stocking
In my ongoing survey of who is writing what about climate change, I find myself stopped by what might be called “clickbait” titles, including a doozy from Will Lockett, who…
Climate Fiction, Part One
Yes, Part One because climate fiction interests me, not surprising given that I’m writing The Steep Climes Quartet, with Kill Well, Book One, coming out this September. I hope to…
The High Cost of Extreme Summer Heat
At present, heatwaves are the topic du jour, and exactly because the heatwaves continue from day to day, and now week to week, and across a third of America’s population,…
Goddam the Bogeyman
This morning, as I’m sipping my first (of many) cups of coffee, I came across two articles from writers using Medium as a publishing platform, and the two are especially…
Climate Resilience, Migration and Cities
I’ve been using Medium as one mechanism to catch interesting climate crisis related content. It didn’t take me long to figure out that reviewing the results could be a full-time…
Holy Jamollie, Let’s Try to Remember a Few Good Things, or Why Da Da Da Doom is Not a Tune We Should Be Singing
I’m hardly what one would call a climate crisis optimist, but scanning the stories of this particular morning’s collection from Medium I was struck by the tone of doom in…
Covering the Climate Crisis Like War, Not
I was reading an article in Heated, published on July 11, 2023, with the provocative title “Oil Companies Are Laughing While the World Burns.” Arielle Samuelson and Emily Atkin are…
Essay: Horsewhip Jeff Bezos, Part One
[NOTE: This essay was originally published in March of 2021, so some of the facts cited have changed since. Also, in retrospect, my critique of Amazon’s poor metadata application and…