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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

Snips of Passing Interests

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…

By David GuenetteNovember 2, 2023September 6, 2025Leave a comment
Snips of Passing Interests

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…

By David GuenetteOctober 11, 2023Leave a comment
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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…

By David GuenetteOctober 10, 2023Leave a comment
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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…

By David GuenetteOctober 1, 2023Leave a comment
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Here’s a Good Bet: Our Climate Future Will Fall Somewhere Between Excessive Optimism and Unseemly Doom

“Incredibly, we’re on track to 0.5C above pre-industrial by around 2050,” published in Medium on August 27, by Paul Pallaghy, is the sort of headline I would like to see…

By David GuenetteSeptember 1, 2023September 1, 2023Leave a comment
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Fossil Fuels in Hot Water

Well, one can hope that at a minimum, when I say hot water, I’m talking about legal liabilities the fossil fuel industry may face for being, well, lying sons of…

By David GuenetteAugust 31, 2023August 31, 2023Leave a comment
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Hurricane Modeling? More, Please, Sir

Dr. Ryan Truchelut’s Weathertiger’s Hurricane Watch, on Substack, published “Atlantic’s Next Top Model: Hurricane Watch Weekly Column for July 11th,” and I found this column very interesting. This particular column…

By David GuenetteAugust 17, 2023Leave a comment
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Covering the Climate Crisis Like War, with Oil in the Crosshairs

I was reading an article in Heated, published on July 11, 2023, with the provocative title “Oil Companies Are Laughing While the World Burns.” Arielle Samuelson and Emily Atkin are…

By David GuenetteJuly 30, 2023July 30, 2023Leave a comment
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Why, Oh Why? The Doomer Dance and Other Annoyances

Many titles on the lists I get from Medium grab attention, and some grab better than others. Unfortunately, the doomer-inflected article titles seem better suited as flags for my attention,…

By David GuenetteJuly 28, 2023Leave a comment
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We Love Cheap Gas

Yes, the headline here qualifies as a truism, which means that the claim is so obvious as to not be questioned. Even climate change activists—at least most of us—like cheap…

By David GuenetteJuly 24, 2023Leave 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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