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…
Author: David Guenette
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…
A Huge Part of the Country is No Longer Safe to Live In
Talk about an eye-grabbing title: I had to read this essay if for no other reason than to find out if I have to move! Written by MartinEdic (yes, no…
Can We Expect Food Prices to Always Be Rising?
There are plenty of forecasts of coming famine due to the climate crisis, but Americans are finding out—and as times go on, we are finding out more and more clearly—that…