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…
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
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…
Pennies from Heaven
The article by Palmer Owyoung, “How Much Would It Cost to Solve Climate Change? And How Would We Pay for It?” (published 5/30/23 on Medium) is a useful roundup of…
A Huge Part of the Country is No Longer Safe to Live In
Talk about an eye-grabbing title: I had to read this essay if for no other reason than to find out if I have to move! Written by MartinEdic (yes, no…
Can We Expect Food Prices to Always Be Rising?
There are plenty of forecasts of coming famine due to the climate crisis, but Americans are finding out—and as times go on, we are finding out more and more clearly—that…