Brief Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher As an antidote to the doomscrolling about climate change that permeates the media these days, here is a sampling of four brand-new 2024 nonfiction titles that offer a more hopeful perspective. H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to...
Review Article by Ross Thrasher The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning, by Peter J. Hotez. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. On Disinformation, by Lee McIntyre. MIT Press, 2023. Foolproof, by Sander Van Der Linden. Norton, 2023. The Deadly Rise of...
REPORTING ON CLIMATE ANXIETY Prepared by Ross Thrasher A recent issue of the e-newsletter Bloomberg Greener Living looks at how climate change is impacting mental health, and how to cope with eco-anxiety. Reporters Olivia Rudgard and Jack Wittels heard from hundreds...
Prepared by Ross Thrasher In Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (Fordham University Press, 2022) Andrew Dana Hudson has written an intriguing quintet of stories based on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report of 2021. Using a futurist technique called...
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This article was originally published in Vox, a news and opinion website on Oct 18, 2023 and is re-published by GTEC with the permission of the author. Why so much is going wrong at the same time Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis? By...
