Just finished Axeman's Carnival and heck, that kind of award-winning literature hits different 🤯 Also, I found it so funny every time Tama went through the cat flap 😹
I've recommended Bill McKibben's book "Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist" a couple of times recently. It's inspiring to read about both the personal journey of a climate activist and the challenges of building the 350 moment. In a similar vein, I'm looking forward to reading ecologist Mike Joy's new book "The Fight for Freshwater".
there are so many good climate books! I enjoyed the ideas in The Ministry for The Future, and I really like the focus on narrative in The Great Derangement. This is also an excellent podcast where the host and guest read climate books together: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cGclAfob2CYlcCaZVcn4I?si=2d694abe9dc14fbe
Ooh I have The Ministry for the Future checked out on Libby right now! Excited to read it.
The Great Derangement sounds interesting, great to hear from a voice from South Asia as well. Just checked it out as audiobook & ebook on Libby :D
Also I love the look of that podcast (and the title) - so are they reading it out loud, like excerpts, or discussing the book assuming the listener has read it?
Am becoming obsessed with adrienne maree brown's work after reading her "Imagination is a Muscle" interview in Not Too Late. She also has a podcast with her sister called How to Survive the End of the World which references Octavia Butler a lot but also roams all over the place.
I've been enjoying Losing Eden by Lucy Jones and just starting on Staying with the Trouble by Donna J Haraway, Solidarity by Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, and All We Can Save (anthology perhaps similar to Not Too Late).
I too struggle with too many library books at once 😅
Oh also a friend recommended me The Art of Frugal Hedonism (spending less and enjoying more) which is light-hearted and fun, I'm finding it a nice tonic at the moment
Oooh what a title - and what a coincidence because I just came across this quote (from a fantasy novel, of all things) I've been reading which I really liked:
“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”
Doesn't seem to be at my local library but have put in a request for them to get it!
Um....no. All of these things are simply societal sectors good governments address every day and throughout history. They can all be objectified, parsed, dissected and analyzed. Creating a set of data points that are unique and identifiable.
I find your narrative uninformed or intentionally misleading. "Best policy practice" is a thing.
I will use your electric car example.
Switching to electric vehicles if maintaining the dominant paradigm of transportation method is a statistically insignificant action. Switching from one resource extracting industrial complex to another is exactly the dynamic that ushered us to this defining and determining point of life on the planet existence.
In this particular case, best policy practice is a nationwide renewable powered high-speed rail system that is integrated with local light rail.
Not only removing fossil fuels as the power source but addressing domestic airline flights as well. If done correctly, and professionally which is a given on any proposal, it would easily illuminate over 750 million of the 900 million domestic flights taken last year alone. Closer to your destination more convenient to get there.
If nationalized and the project all encompassing started everywhere all over the nation with fair compensation packages and purposeful minded employees, it would not only boost the national economy but provide an increase in tax base for local municipalities as to fund their local light rail project.
Renewable powered super convenient mass transit. Easily replacing three out of every four cars on the road if done properly and designed professionally.
There. One single example in a category of topics which all have this singular, and unique "best policy practice"
Oh good to know, thank you!
Just finished Axeman's Carnival and heck, that kind of award-winning literature hits different 🤯 Also, I found it so funny every time Tama went through the cat flap 😹
I've recommended Bill McKibben's book "Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist" a couple of times recently. It's inspiring to read about both the personal journey of a climate activist and the challenges of building the 350 moment. In a similar vein, I'm looking forward to reading ecologist Mike Joy's new book "The Fight for Freshwater".
Reserved! 😄📚
there are so many good climate books! I enjoyed the ideas in The Ministry for The Future, and I really like the focus on narrative in The Great Derangement. This is also an excellent podcast where the host and guest read climate books together: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cGclAfob2CYlcCaZVcn4I?si=2d694abe9dc14fbe
Ooh I have The Ministry for the Future checked out on Libby right now! Excited to read it.
The Great Derangement sounds interesting, great to hear from a voice from South Asia as well. Just checked it out as audiobook & ebook on Libby :D
Also I love the look of that podcast (and the title) - so are they reading it out loud, like excerpts, or discussing the book assuming the listener has read it?
it's the premise of 'we read climate books so you don't have to' - so you can read along or just listen to the chat
Just wanna update - absolutely loved The Great Derangement, one of my favourite books of the year!
yay! I should definitely read it again
Ooh those all look like great books!
Am becoming obsessed with adrienne maree brown's work after reading her "Imagination is a Muscle" interview in Not Too Late. She also has a podcast with her sister called How to Survive the End of the World which references Octavia Butler a lot but also roams all over the place.
I've been enjoying Losing Eden by Lucy Jones and just starting on Staying with the Trouble by Donna J Haraway, Solidarity by Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, and All We Can Save (anthology perhaps similar to Not Too Late).
I too struggle with too many library books at once 😅
I'm SO excited to read Not Too Late!! Haven't read "All We Can Save" yet either, I heard it's quite sad... but have been recommended it many times!
Oh also a friend recommended me The Art of Frugal Hedonism (spending less and enjoying more) which is light-hearted and fun, I'm finding it a nice tonic at the moment
This sounds so lovely - reserved!
Some great Aussie humour too 😁
“We are all climate hypocrites now” by Sami Grover, I found that helpful
Oooh what a title - and what a coincidence because I just came across this quote (from a fantasy novel, of all things) I've been reading which I really liked:
“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”
Doesn't seem to be at my local library but have put in a request for them to get it!
Love that quote, will remember it!!
Um....no. All of these things are simply societal sectors good governments address every day and throughout history. They can all be objectified, parsed, dissected and analyzed. Creating a set of data points that are unique and identifiable.
I find your narrative uninformed or intentionally misleading. "Best policy practice" is a thing.
I will use your electric car example.
Switching to electric vehicles if maintaining the dominant paradigm of transportation method is a statistically insignificant action. Switching from one resource extracting industrial complex to another is exactly the dynamic that ushered us to this defining and determining point of life on the planet existence.
In this particular case, best policy practice is a nationwide renewable powered high-speed rail system that is integrated with local light rail.
Not only removing fossil fuels as the power source but addressing domestic airline flights as well. If done correctly, and professionally which is a given on any proposal, it would easily illuminate over 750 million of the 900 million domestic flights taken last year alone. Closer to your destination more convenient to get there.
If nationalized and the project all encompassing started everywhere all over the nation with fair compensation packages and purposeful minded employees, it would not only boost the national economy but provide an increase in tax base for local municipalities as to fund their local light rail project.
Renewable powered super convenient mass transit. Easily replacing three out of every four cars on the road if done properly and designed professionally.
There. One single example in a category of topics which all have this singular, and unique "best policy practice"
Do better, Bruh.
I am referring to the United States, specifically. Also, I realize you are a woman.