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
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…