Climate Progress is Expensive
Not easing the climate crisis is far more costly, but there’s danger if we’re not upfront about the costs The 2026 midterms are an unambiguous victory for American democracy…
Tag: Clean energy transition
The Truth About Carbon Pricing
Putting a price on carbon makes sense, whether through a carbon tax, a carbon fee and dividend program, or by directly having fossil fuel corporations acknowledge and absorb the cost…
Price on Carbon is Pragmatic Because It Reflects Reality
We can price carbon different ways, and we should, because the cost of carbon is unavoidable “Climate Action Policies & Pragmatism’s Two Goals: Pricing Carbon Was Our Political Potemkin…
Over-Complicating Climate Change Progress
I spend a lot of time reading posts and essays and articles about the latest in science and solutions for climate change. The science is fascinating and relevant to my…
In Defense of Group 2
Kira Thomsen-Cheek’s Climate Revolution Now understands that climate disaster is coming, but does she understand people? Climate Revolution Now’s recent post, “People Get Ready,” is entirely unignorable, not least because…
Writing the Future of Climate Change
Once in a while it is good to look back at what you’ve been doing and reflect on how you got to that work. I’ve been working on the Steep…
How to Win the Electrotech Revolution
Victory is likely; victory fast enough to make a big difference is something else entirely. There’s a lot to do and we need a lot of people to do it.…
The War on Big Oil
No, I’m not talking about the violence of war, although, in my upcoming Over Brooklyn Hills, Book Three in my literary climate fiction series the Steep Climes Quartet, I have…
Climate Fiction, Climate Fantasy: What’s the right mix of hope and disappointment?
In the Steep Climes Quartet, my literary climate fiction series that spans from 2026, 2029, 2035, and 2047, one important focus is imaging how we get from where we are…
Climate Fiction, Optimism, and Realism
“On the Urgency of Climate Change, Creating Hope in a Crisis, and the Limits of Western Storytelling: A Roundtable on Our Climate Futures with Libia Brenda, Vandana Singh, Gu Shi,…