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Book Review: Troubled Waters by Mary Annaïse Heglar
There’s more than one way for a family to deal with generational trauma. And there’s more than one way for a family to respond to systemic racism and the climate crisis. Mary Annaïse Heglar’s debut novel, Troubled Waters, tells an intense, compelling, and deeply personal story at the intersection of these themes. After listening to…
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Book Review: The Deluge by Stephen Markley
What will the climate crisis and the world’s response to it look like over the course of the next decade or two? The Deluge by Stephen Markley offers one of the most thorough and compelling answers to this question that I’ve read to date. This novel explores almost every facet of the climate crisis in…
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Climate Fiction Writers League Reading List
The Climate Fiction Writers League is a group of authors who believe in the necessity of climate action, immediately and absolutely. Their website features a prominent quote that offers a good synopsis of what they do and why they do it: Fiction is one of the best ways to inspire passion, empathy and action in…
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Book Review: New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
New York 2140 is an ambitious novel about what New York City will be like in the year 2140 if human-caused global warming continues unchecked. If you’re interested in New York, global warming, science fiction, political fiction, or all of the above, I strongly recommend that you read this novel.
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Book Review: All We Can Save
The climate crisis is a classic example of a “wicked problem.” The causes of the climate crisis are complex, intractable, and interconnected with other systemic problems. Our individual and collective responses to the climate crisis should be similarly complex. They should take a systems thinking approach, identifying the many elements of our social systems that…
