As devastating as climate change is, there's an unexpected upside that has quietly emerged: the incredible literature it inspires. Over the past few months, I’ve found myself buried in an array of fantastic non-fiction and fiction books that revolve around this theme. Works such as
Thanks so much for this. Climate Change is one of those topics we aren't allowed to bring up in polite society, because it's fucking scary. How polite is it though, to refuse to talk about it, plan for it, DO something about it?
I encourage everyone here to subscribe to Andrew Dressler's The Climate Brink. Because ignorance is rude. And Andrew is a very good writer.
We need to talk more about climate change, we really do. It's something I've put a lot of thought into it and I now have far more conversations with people. I've put together a lot of resources to help in climate change conversations, here are a few good ones. Let me know if you are interested in more, I've put together a lot on this subject.
I still have a book on passive building design. Window placement, airflow, landscaping are just some of the recommendations in this book written in the 1960’s. Climate change isn’t a new concept. I so hope this book gets a lot of attention and is read!
The world is already seeing the result of heat making places inhospitable: Migration. Primates generally react to invasion of their territory by a neighbouring tribe by trying to kill them.
Homo sapiens has become too tame. But whenever the final lap comes for the human race, the psychopaths will win.
Can someone please write an article about the number of people who die of cold every winter, the number being about 10 times greater than those who die from heat? Some perspective would be nice.
I too have heard climate change deniers attest that more people die from cold. However, I don’t think that’s true--although my evidence is anecdotal, e.g., 739 people died in Chicago in a 1995 heat wave that caused air temps ON THE LAKEFRONT to reach 103 degrees.
And I’ve never heard of multiple deaths in Chicago’s winters, in spite of WAY below zero wind chills and subzero air temps that last for days or weeks.
Clearly, you did not read the Axios article because it wasn’t predicting anything, it was reporting on what happened last summer, 2022 with hard facts and figures.
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Excellent interview with Jeff Goodell. His book sounds like a must-read.
Thanks so much for this. Climate Change is one of those topics we aren't allowed to bring up in polite society, because it's fucking scary. How polite is it though, to refuse to talk about it, plan for it, DO something about it?
I encourage everyone here to subscribe to Andrew Dressler's The Climate Brink. Because ignorance is rude. And Andrew is a very good writer.
We need to talk more about climate change, we really do. It's something I've put a lot of thought into it and I now have far more conversations with people. I've put together a lot of resources to help in climate change conversations, here are a few good ones. Let me know if you are interested in more, I've put together a lot on this subject.
https://theturnstone.substack.com/p/talking-about-climate-change-12
That's great, Melanie. Thanks for this. ❤️
Definitely on my must-read list. I enjoyed - well, that's not exactly the right word, I appreciated - The Water Will Come.
I still have a book on passive building design. Window placement, airflow, landscaping are just some of the recommendations in this book written in the 1960’s. Climate change isn’t a new concept. I so hope this book gets a lot of attention and is read!
The world is already seeing the result of heat making places inhospitable: Migration. Primates generally react to invasion of their territory by a neighbouring tribe by trying to kill them.
Homo sapiens has become too tame. But whenever the final lap comes for the human race, the psychopaths will win.
Can someone please write an article about the number of people who die of cold every winter, the number being about 10 times greater than those who die from heat? Some perspective would be nice.
I too have heard climate change deniers attest that more people die from cold. However, I don’t think that’s true--although my evidence is anecdotal, e.g., 739 people died in Chicago in a 1995 heat wave that caused air temps ON THE LAKEFRONT to reach 103 degrees.
And I’ve never heard of multiple deaths in Chicago’s winters, in spite of WAY below zero wind chills and subzero air temps that last for days or weeks.
A simple online search of words like 'deaths from cold weather' will show that large numbers of people die in the northern hemisphere's winter every year from the cold, many times more than die from summer heat. For example: https://abc7chicago.com/winter-storm-weather-forecast-power-outages-travel/12613253/ and https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cold-related-deaths-cook-county-20200128-n6fki3u7qbcsdmjxxy6tnt4vz4-story.html . Around the world, the numbers of people dying from cold weather is huge: https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/human-deaths-from-hot-and-cold-temperatures-and-implications-for-climate-change
I wrote about that here: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/unraveling-the-debate-does-heat-or
Clearly, you did not read the Axios article because it wasn’t predicting anything, it was reporting on what happened last summer, 2022 with hard facts and figures.
Are 61,000 deaths significant enough for you?
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/10/europe-summer-heat-deaths-2022-climate-study
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