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…
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…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…