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…
Author: David Guenette
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…
Civilizational Collapse, Yikes!
I enjoyed “Are We Facing the Reality of Civilizational Collapse?” by Umair Haque, published on Medium on July 9, 2023. I mean, how could I not, considering the deck for…
Writing The Steep Climes Quartet
When I started writing back in 2015 what has become The Steep Climes Quartet series, I was recovering from rotator cuff surgery and had three-plus months when the use of…
Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, and a Sony DV-2400
I’m guessing it was 1971 when I learned about greenhouse gases. It was sometime in my first year of high school, although the freshman class was housed in the building…
Fun with Apocalypse
Pulp fiction has a long tradition of disaster and apocalypse and post-apocalypse stories, and today novels and television series about zombies and other plagues of various sorts may be the…
Pennies from Heaven
The article by Palmer Owyoung, “How Much Would It Cost to Solve Climate Change? And How Would We Pay for It?” (published 5/30/23 on Medium) is a useful roundup of…