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What If We Get It Right by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

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What If We Get It Right by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Do you like reading about visions of climate futures that are evidence-based and inspired by work that people are doing in the real world today? 

What If We Get It Right: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a book full of informative and inspiring interviews with people who are working on innovative climate solutions. It’s a great combination of compelling personal stories and detailed exploration of many concrete actions we can take in response to the climate crisis.

If this sounds like your kind of book, be sure to read my review over at Climate Change Books. And please share it with anyone you know who cares about climate solutions and climate justice.

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Choose my character's next victim

Choose my character’s next victim

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Have you ever voted on the fate of a character in a work of fiction? Now’s your chance to help me choose my character’s next victim!

One of the two novels I’m writing, Burning, features a protagonist named Rionach. Rionach suffers a tremendous personal loss during a climate-fueled wildfire. Rather than dealing with her climate grief in more socially-acceptable ways, she decides to hunt the people responsible for the climate crisis.

In honor of Halloween, Samhain, and my inclusion in the “There Will Be Blood” gory ebook giveaway, I’ve decided to let my readers vote on who Rionach will choose as her next victim!

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The Deluge

Book Review: The Deluge by Stephen Markley

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The Deluge

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 amazing and terrifying detail. Even after reading dozens of other climate fiction classics like Ministry for the Future, Termination Shock, and Parable of the Sower, I found myself blown away by both the sheer scope of this novel and the many skillful ways Markley drew me in and kept me reading throughout the entire 896-page journey.

This novel covers so much ground that it could easily be the subject of an entire semester-long course on climate fiction. Since this isn’t a climate fiction course, I’ll narrow the focus of this review to three themes: climate catastrophes, climate solutions, and narrative structure.

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Climate Communication

Let’s get creative with our climate communication

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Climate Communication
Treesong created this Climate Communication art using the a climate warming stripe graphic. The original climate warming stripe graphic was created by Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) and used in accordance with the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

The end of one calendar year and the start of another is often a great time to reflect on the course of our lives and the state of the world. This is particularly true when it comes to the climate crisis.

What happened with climate change in 2023? What might happen in 2024? What can we do about it?

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