Excitement in Politics: An Indictment of Boring
Matthew Yglesias’s Slow Boring Substack is always worth a read, but I often find myself disappointed by his basic sense of how in American politics progress is made, as if…
Author: David Guenette
Single Issue Politics in the Time of Crisis… and What Over Brooklyn Hills Has to Say About It
Of course, there are many species of crisis and one person’s crisis and another’s not so important consideration. I know this, you know this, we all know this. Climate change…
Early Amazon reviews for Dear Josephine
Dear Josephine is available as a Kindle book and paperback through Amazon and through other ebook stores at Books2Read.com. The paperback version of Dear Josephine is also available by ordering…
The Electrotech Manifesto
Once in a while a great presentation of key arguments for the renewable energy transition comes along. This is one of them and well worth reading. It isn’t that these…
The Future of Climate Change in the Berkshires: May 21, 6:30 p.m., Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield; May 23, 4:00 p.m., Mason Library, Great Barrington
David Guenette, author of The Steep Climes Quartet, talks about his literary climate fiction series and about climate change in the Berkshires over the next 30 years, reading excerpts from…
It’s the cost of living, stupid: Critiquing Matthew Yglesias’s “Doubling down on climate won’t win the Senate”
I’m a fan of Andy Revkin and his balanced and informative substack, Sustain What, but I think he’s wrong in his recent substack, “Keep Your Climate Goals in Your Pocket…
Matt Martinez of The Berkshire Eagle Writes Me Up!
You’d usually find in the post category of “DRG’s Writings” non-The Steep Climes Quartet writing of mine, or climate fiction reviews, or some sort of pontificating, but when the spotlight…
The Future of Climate Change in the Berkshires Talk at Griswold Memorial Library, May 14, 6:00 p.m.
I’ll be talking about the next three decades of climate change and what this period will bring to Berkshire County residents. Why the Berkshires? Well, that is the central location…
My Report About EROI, Written by AI
When you read widely about climate change and renewable energy you come across a bunch of articles about what’s wrong with very concept of the renewable energy transition. Often, such…
What Can You Do About Climate Change?
[Author’s note: I’ve written earlier versions of this short essay, but recently I’ve been exploring AI and clarifying what AI can do for me. Much of my attention has been…