PostedJun 9, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion, Youth
Eco-fiction Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher “The water is only doing what it must. It is old and it is smart, and it has been changing forever, and we can no more fight it than we can fight the sky.” (From All the Water in the World) Two excellent new novels encompass...
PostedMar 10, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, energy
Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher Cautionary tales about the oil industry and its impact on modern society have a 100-year lineage. Here are brief summaries of a historical petro-fiction classic and an impressive recent entry in the genre. Oil!, by Upton Sinclair....
PostedJan 24, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, sustainability
Brief Reviews by Ross Thrasher Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis, by David Geselbracht. Douglas & McIntyre, 2024. This is a personal account from a BC-based environmental journalist and lawyer. Geselbracht relates his interviews and...
PostedJan 21, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, opinion, sustainability
By Arden Henley Whether it is in BC where a right-wing populist party just about overturned the governing centre-left, New Democratic Party, in France where Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party recently ousted the Prime Minister, or the United States where Donald Trump...
PostedDec 26, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, sustainability
Risky Business: The Future of Fossil Fuel Capitalism Book Review by Ross Thrasher Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton. Verso, 2024. The definition of the term overshoot is to go past (a point) unintentionally,...
PostedOct 2, 2024 | book review, climate change, Education, international news, opinion, sustainability, technology
Brief Summaries: Articles from the Earth Issue of Wired Magazine By Ross Thrasher The September 2024 issue of Wired magazine, subtitled The Earth Issue, contains four interesting essays on climate and the environment. Here are brief summaries: “The hole in the map of...
