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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

Bryce Hyped Focus

It’s too easy to find writing online that is either unintentionally poorly thought out or intentionally rhetorically abusive, and when it comes to issues related to climate change, one of…

By David GuenetteMay 7, 2024Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

Climate Doom? Apocalyptic Optimism? Climate Change Catastrophe? Hope!

A couple of articles recently caught my eye, probably because I keep an eye out for Doomer-talk, which I think is at best an unhelpful surrender of hope for addressing…

By David GuenetteMay 3, 2024May 3, 2024Leave a comment
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Pay Now, Pay Later, or Really Pay Much More Later

There’s good news, some not so great news, and some really bad news when it comes to the climate crisis. The good news is that people are doing things to…

By David GuenetteApril 24, 2024April 24, 2024Leave a comment
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Permitting Reform Allows Much-needed Renewable Energy Integration, But Will Big Oil Permit It?

There is an odd game being played by utilities these days, a version of “gotcha” where they say there’s a need for additional fossil fuel generation build out because there…

By David GuenetteApril 2, 2024Leave a comment
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Big Oil in the Dock: Can Suing Fossil Fuel Corporations Answer Climate Change?

Just because you help carry the guy you beat up within an inch of his life to the ambulance, that doesn’t mean you’re not guilty of aggravated assault or attempted…

By David GuenetteMarch 23, 20241 Comment
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Climate Change and Class

In America it remains impolite to talk about class. In America class is all about economics, so the outdated and irrelevant British sense of class of which most of us…

By David GuenetteFebruary 17, 2024February 18, 2024Leave a comment
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WOW. I Never Meta-Hypocrisy I Didn’t Like, or, Who is Robert Bryce and Why Does He Write Such S***?

I confess that Robert Bryce sets me off. Who is he? Here’s his own capsule biography: I am an author, podcaster, and filmmaker. I’ve been reporting on the energy sector…

By David GuenetteFebruary 13, 20242 Comments
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The Climate Crisis is Now Widely Accepted, But Will This Translate into Votes to Take Action?

Here’s an interesting piece, from Medium’s George Dillard (The New Climate): “The Next Climate Perception Battle: Americans now accept climate change — but they still need a more complete understanding”…

By David GuenetteFebruary 1, 2024February 1, 2024Leave a comment
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A Decade’s Worth of Growing Concern: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Poll Shows That Most People Want More Climate Change-related News

An article published by Covering Climate Now, January 4, 2024, reports on the latest study from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, an effort widely considered “the gold standard”…

By David GuenetteJanuary 4, 2024Leave a comment
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The Biggest Threat to Climate Progress is How Stupid We Can Be When We Write About It

I have a problem. I’m curious and eager to learn, but I’ve a deadly addiction. That addiction—deadly, I guess, only in so far as it often results in my wanting…

By David GuenetteDecember 23, 2023January 4, 2024Leave a comment

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The Steep Climes Quartet
  • The Challenge of Conveying Climate Change Information in Climate Fiction
  • Writing the Future of Climate Change
  • Figuring Out Climate Fiction
  • Climate Fiction, Climate Fantasy: What’s the right mix of hope and disappointment?
  • Let’s Talk About Climate Optimism and Hope That We Can Write About Doing Something About Climate Change
  • Fun with Apocalypse, Part 2
  • Writing The Steep Climes Quartet, Part 2: Economics in Climate Fiction
  • Climate Change and the Human Condition
  • Writing Villains on Both Sides in Climate Fiction
  • Why We Write: A look back at why the heck I’m writing a four-book climate fiction series

Other Writing
  • How to Win the Electrotech Revolution
  • Let’s Get Serious About Solar
  • Fossil Fuel Demand Growth Uber Alles
  • The War on Big Oil
  • What is the State of States’ Efforts to Make Home Solar and BESS Easier and Cheaper?

Snips of Passing Interests
  • Oil War and Counter-War on Oil
  • The Architecture of Obstruction
  • Is Climate Hope Fiction Hopeless?
  • AI is Giving Me Gas
  • American Oil Marches On
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