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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

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
Snips of Passing Interests

If Trump Doesn’t Kill the Fight Against Climate Change, Then Maybe Capitalism Will

Just recently I wrote a post titled “The Truth Will Out” that carried the deck, “Trump’s Reactionary Stance on Clean Energy May be Little More than a Small Bump on…

By David GuenetteApril 12, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

The Truth Will Out

Trump’s Reactionary Stance on Clean Energy May be Little More than a Small Bump on the Road to Clean Energy Transition, because Fossil Fuels are Very Expensive Like vast numbers…

By David GuenetteMarch 23, 2025March 23, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

My Leading Climate Change Online Resources

I’ve been making a list and checking it twice, and then don’t you know The New York Times comes out with something akin to what I’m working on, so what,…

By David GuenetteJanuary 3, 2025January 4, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

Sally Rooney on Working Inside or Outside Our Political Systems… and a Nice Tip ‘O the Cap to Soil from Sally Morgan

According to Wikipedia, Sally Rooney, a writer of novels—Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), and Intermezzo (2024)—was named by Time magazine in 2022…

By David GuenetteDecember 4, 2024Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

What’s Wrong with Touting America’s Fossil Fuel Extraction Success?

The debate about climate change in the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates is over: altogether, discussion about climate change and how to address climate change was weak. Weak, that it, unless…

By David GuenetteOctober 3, 2024Leave a comment
News, Snips of Passing Interests

Hannah Ritchie Deserves to be Heard. I Just Wish She Would Say More.

“It’s become strangely normal to tell out kids that they’re going to die from climate change.” This is how Hannah Ritchie begins her TED Talk given in April 2023. That’s…

By David GuenetteSeptember 24, 2024Leave a comment

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The Steep Climes Quartet
  • 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.
  • Three Dates for The Future of Climate Change in the Berkshires Talks
  • The Future of Climate Change in the Berkshires at Griswold Memorial Library
  • Oh Dear Dear Dear… Josephine and other Updates on The Steep Climes Quartet Series
  • Oh Dear! Dear Josephine is Late Again! This Time, Blame the November 2024 Elections
  • What Can You Do About Climate Change?

Other Writing
  • Matt Martinez of The Berkshire Eagle Writes Me Up!
  • My Report About EROI, Written by AI
  • What Can You Do About Climate Change?
  • Growing Energy Demand and the 2600 GW of Renewables Waiting “In the Interconnect Queue”: I Asked AI to Explain
  • The Displacements, A Novel by Bruce Holsinger, Has Climate Change Manifest as Place Change

Snips of Passing Interests
  • Seriously, More Conversation about Climate Fiction and Its Efficacy
  • Excitement in Politics: An Indictment of Boring
  • The Electrotech Manifesto
  • It’s the cost of living, stupid: Critiquing Matthew Yglesias’s “Doubling down on climate won’t win the Senate”
  • If Trump Doesn’t Kill the Fight Against Climate Change, Then Maybe Capitalism Will
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