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Climate fiction, climate crisis, media critiques, and the business of culture are all subjects that I try to follow and I’m trying to develop the habit of noting particularly interesting pieces—articles, blogs, news—I come across

Snips of Passing Interests

Democracy, Climate Action, Climate Fiction… and Criminality

These days it can be hard to write climate fiction. Given the dangerous threat America is under now from authoritarianism, the more pressing action seems obvious: combat our country’s slide…

By David GuenetteOctober 15, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

New Gas Generator Plants and the Plan to Flood the (Electricity Demand Growth) Zone

It’s looking good for green energy (or renewable energy, but no longer alternative energy), right? The ongoing transition away from fossil fuel-based generation of electricity looks like a done deal,…

By David GuenetteSeptember 27, 2025September 28, 2025Leave a comment
News, Snips of Passing Interests

Is Big Oil Overpromising and Underdelivering?

Fossil fuel industry’s claims about taking care of our growing clean electricity demand falls short, but boy, the industry is over-achieving in their production of GHG   Big Oil’s clean…

By David GuenetteSeptember 20, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

I’m Rubber, You’re Glue: Robert Bryce, Fossil Fuel Shill, is just one of the many attacking Bill McKibben and his latest book, Here Comes the Sun

Years back, when I was checking on my understanding of the renewable energy transition, and the claims and realities of the transition, I came across Robert Bryce. It was on…

By David GuenetteSeptember 7, 2025September 12, 20251 Comment
Snips of Passing Interests

New Atlantis is a Fossil Fuel Shill Factory

There I am, reviewing the daily Google News headlines, and there’s one titled “How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot,” and I guess this is Google News headline worthy because McKibben’s…

By David GuenetteAugust 23, 2025September 6, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

Listening to the Godheads: What Bill McKibben and Jamie Henn Didn’t Say on Volts

First, let me be clear: Bill McKibben is terrific, with a capital “T” and the following critique of a recent David Robert’s Volts Substack podcast is not changing this positive…

By David GuenetteAugust 22, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

Seriously, More Conversation about Climate Fiction and Its Efficacy

Showing up in my email inbox this morning was a Substack from Climate Fiction Writers League, on July 15, 2025, by Kate Woodworth. The title: “Does Climate Writing Lead to…

By David GuenetteJuly 15, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

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…

By David GuenetteJune 26, 2025June 28, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

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…

By David GuenetteJune 1, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

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…

By David GuenetteMay 12, 2025Leave a comment

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The Steep Climes Quartet
  • Climate Change and the Human Condition
  • Writing Villains on Both Sides in Climate Fiction
  • Why We Write: A look back at why the heck I’m writing a four-book climate fiction series
  • Climate Change in the Berkshires: Wednesday, September 24, 6:00 p.m., at David and Joyce Milne Public Library
  • The Complex Dynamics of Electricity Costs: Navigating Renewable Integration, Infrastructure Strain, and Policy Shifts
  • More Amazon Reviews for Dear Josephine
  • Single Issue Politics in the Time of Crisis… and What Over Brooklyn Hills Has to Say About It
  • Early Amazon reviews for Dear Josephine
  • 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
  • The Future of Climate Change in the Berkshires Talk at Griswold Memorial Library, May 14, 6:00 p.m.

Other Writing
  • Why I Haven’t Installed Solar Power and Batteries
  • Blues Skies by T.C. Boyle: Oh You Humans!
  • Matt Martinez of The Berkshire Eagle Writes Me Up!
  • My Report About EROI, Written by AI
  • What Can You Do About Climate Change?

Snips of Passing Interests
  • Democracy, Climate Action, Climate Fiction… and Criminality
  • New Gas Generator Plants and the Plan to Flood the (Electricity Demand Growth) Zone
  • Is Big Oil Overpromising and Underdelivering?
  • I’m Rubber, You’re Glue: Robert Bryce, Fossil Fuel Shill, is just one of the many attacking Bill McKibben and his latest book, Here Comes the Sun
  • New Atlantis is a Fossil Fuel Shill Factory
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