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…
Category: Other Writing
When it comes to writing I have wide interests. I hope that is not simply another way of declaring that I’m shallow and pretentious. The beauty about writing is that the writer can say whatever he or she (or xe, for the gender non-affixed) wants to about his or her (or xer) own work, but it is the reader that has the real say.
Growing Energy Demand and the 2600 GW of Renewables Waiting “In the Interconnect Queue”: I Asked AI to Explain
A recent post of mine, “The Truth Will Out,” discussed not only Trump’s reactionary stance on climate change and the general lack of sense in pushing for long-term expansion of…
The Displacements, A Novel by Bruce Holsinger, Has Climate Change Manifest as Place Change
The Displacements, by Bruce Holsinger, was published by Riverhead Books in 2022, so I’m not beating myself up for only recently finding it, and I’ll admit to liking the book…
Plot- and Character Development-wise, Snowflake involves Thinking about Killing Trump
I’m sure I can’t tell you why I find myself thinking about the novel, Snowflake: A Novel, by Arthur Jeon, a novel that fits within the odd category of “climate…
Jake Bittle’s The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration Never Quite Arrives
When I review books, typically the books are climate fiction. Here, though, is a non-fiction climate change book review. I’ll confess this right up front in these thoughts on Jake…
My Latest Column in The Berkshire Eagle
Thanks to The Berkshire Eagle for publishing another of my columns, part of a project by Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s Berkshire Chapter Media Team. Today, April 22, 2024, my second column,…
Climate Fiction Quickies: Snowflake: A Novel, by Arthur Jeon; Denial, a Novel, Jon Raymond; The Great Transition, by Nick Fuller Googins
Here are three more climate fiction novels reviewed. Two of them are terrific: Snowflake, by Arthur Jeon, and The Great Transition, by Nick Fuller Googins. Denial, a Novel, Jon Raymond,…
Climate Fiction Quickies: A Friend of the Earth, T. C. Boyle; The Forcing, Paul E. Hardisty; Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins
I read climate fiction—a would-be genre that covers a lot of ground—and I post reviews of such books when I get around to it. What is interesting about these three…
We Have to Pay for Fixing the Greenhouse Gases Crisis: The Climate Fight in All of Its Complexities and Confusion about Costs… and Politics
Like it or not, cost is a big deal when it comes to resolving climate change, and the cost is high, but the climate progress movement doesn’t like to talk…
A False Argument on Climate Fiction
As readers of my posts know, I’m attentive to climate fiction, whether in the form of reading and reviewing or in exploring the efficacy of climate fiction to help readers…