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
Phrases I’d never imagined writing: “lesser extinction events” or “extinctions are interesting” This post is about “Extinctions and Optimism: What a recent study says and doesn’t say about extinctions,” by…
Andy Revkin likes Roger Pielke’s recent Substack, but it seems to me we all have better things to do Andy Rivkin writes Sustain What on Substack, and a post of…
Today, I’m writing about the group Climate Defiance. I’m also writing about climate defiance, lowercase, by which I mean the application of public shaming of executives of fossil fuel corporations,…
Can’t a billionaire get better writers? The headlines are full of Bill Gates touting some version of “Bill Gates Doesn’t Think Climate Change is Important.” It is hysterical. The general…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…