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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 and His Snow Job: Apparently, Climate Change Action is the Work of Anti-Math Nincompoops and Elite Conspiracists

Oops, he did it again. I’m referring to Robert Bryce, who writes a Susbstack about energy and economic fairness—a great topic, by the way, if only he would actually address…

By David GuenetteJune 20, 2024June 20, 2024Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

One Presidential Candidate Works to Cool Down the Danger of Global Warming, while the Other Throws Gas on the Fire

Elections matter, although as a review of American history will show, sometimes elections don’t matter all that much. The 2024 election, on the other hand, is very much in the…

By David GuenetteMay 31, 2024Leave a comment
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Robert Bryce’s Anti-Environmental Pro-Renewable Energy Transition NGOs Argument is a No Go Argument

“Environmentalism in America is dead. It has been replaced by climatism and renewable energy fetishism.” So says Robert Bryce, supposed climate change realist, in a recent Substack piece titled “Environmentalism…

By David GuenetteMay 24, 2024May 25, 2024Leave a comment
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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
Snips of Passing Interests

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
Snips of Passing Interests

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 Steep Climes Quartet
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  • An Everyman: I Get to Think Further About Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Another Review of Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Another Editorial Review of Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Booklife Review of Over Brooklyn Hills
  • Over Brooklyn Hills is Now Available
  • Climate Fiction Featuring Far Futures, Dystopia, Fantasies, and Other Simplified Worlds, is Simply Much Easier to Write
  • The World of Amazon Publishing and the Hoops a Publisher Jumps Through to Participate in the World of Amazon Publishing
  • The Challenge of Conveying Climate Change Information in Climate Fiction
  • Writing the Future of Climate Change

Other Writing
  • There Can Be a Tax on Taxonomical Confusion
  • Reviewing Reviews, or The Strange Little Business of Feeding the Marketing of Novels
  • What is Climate Fiction?
  • A Fantastic Essay about Climate Fiction but Still a Lot of Fantasy
  • Clean Tech/Fossil-Free Funds Can Make A Difference

Snips of Passing Interests
  • In Defense of Group 2
  • The Short-term Costs of Clean Energy and the Long-term Affordability Advantages
  • Let’s Do Anti-AI Backlash Right
  • Oil War and Counter-War on Oil
  • The Architecture of Obstruction
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