literary fiction and climate change, revisited
Here we have Siddhartha Deb making precisely the same inexplicable error that Amitav Ghosh, whom he quotes, made last...
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help wanted from thoughtful people
Suppose you’re a person who believes that anthropogenic climate change is very real and very, very bad news. Suppose...
looking for climate-change fiction in all the wrong places
Amitav Ghosh asks, “Where Is the Fiction About Climate Change?” When I try to think of writers whose imaginative...
climate science and public scrutiny
Eric Holthaus writes in Slate about a new climate study led by James Hansen that argues that we are likely to see ocean...
more thoughts on Laudato Si’
Having made some preliminary comments on Pope Francis’s new encyclical, I now want to develop more specific...
first thoughts on Laudato Si’
1) The encyclical is noteworthy for its dialogical character. The word “dialogue” appears repeatedly, and Francis...
Station Eleven and global cooling
I recently read Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, which didn’t quite overwhelm me the way it has overwhelmed...
who hacks the planet?
Eli Kintisch’s 2010 book Hack the Planet explores the rise of geoengineering as a response to global warming: Since...