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…
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
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 In America class is all about economics, so the outdated and irrelevant British sense of class of which most of us…
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…
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”…
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”…
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…
Who is Lying? Those Who Say Fossil Fuel Companies Engage in Misinformation and Influence Campaigns against Renewable Energy, or Those Who Say Renewable Energy Advocates Have Pants on Fire?
Let me answer this obviously rhetorical question right up front: it is the fossil fuels industry that is a goddam liar. This conclusion isn’t a matter of cherry-picking information. Various internal…
Done with Doomers
Perhaps I suffer from an undiagnosed case of an undesignated condition of climate anxiety. In Kill Well, the first book in my climate fiction series The Steep Climes Quartet, such…
The Fossil Fuel Industry is Our Enemy
There are many hundreds of thousands of Americans who make their living in work related to fossil fuels, and I’m not thinking of any of these as enemies. Heck, one…
Investing or Resting? The Inflation Reduction Act is Going Slow, at Least at the State Level
In my climate activist work, I’ve been trying to help others in my region learn about the potential direct and personal benefits the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act may hold for…