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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…