Climate Defiance
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,…
Category: Snips of Passing Interests
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
The Headlines are Full of Bill Gates’ Latest Wisdom—It’s Hysterical!
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…