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…
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
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,…
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…
Coal In Your Stocking
In my ongoing survey of who is writing what about climate change, I find myself stopped by what might be called “clickbait” titles, including a doozy from Will Lockett, who…
The High Cost of Extreme Summer Heat
At present, heatwaves are the topic du jour, and exactly because the heatwaves continue from day to day, and now week to week, and across a third of America’s population,…
Goddam the Bogeyman
This morning, as I’m sipping my first (of many) cups of coffee, I came across two articles from writers using Medium as a publishing platform, and the two are especially…
Climate Resilience, Migration and Cities
I’ve been using Medium as one mechanism to catch interesting climate crisis related content. It didn’t take me long to figure out that reviewing the results could be a full-time…
Holy Jamollie, Let’s Try to Remember a Few Good Things, or Why Da Da Da Doom is Not a Tune We Should Be Singing
I’m hardly what one would call a climate crisis optimist, but scanning the stories of this particular morning’s collection from Medium I was struck by the tone of doom in…
Covering the Climate Crisis Like War, Not
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…
Civilizational Collapse, Yikes!
I enjoyed “Are We Facing the Reality of Civilizational Collapse?” by Umair Haque, published on Medium on July 9, 2023. I mean, how could I not, considering the deck for…