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Denial, incompetence, & depravity

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 28, 2018 | 3 Comments »

For many, President Trump’s babbling and incoherent responses to last week’s National Climate Assessment (“I’m too smart to believe it, just look at our air and water and what those other countries are doing…”), following on from his even less coherent responses to California’s wildfire tragedies (“They should rake more, like the Finns”), merely reconfirm that […]

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Toward telling an adequate story

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2016 | 11 Comments »

This post builds on the previous one on the state of the eco-humanities. Here I focus on the substantive elements for narratives adequate to the Anthropocene. One of the challenges of our time is to learn to tell an adequate story of humanity’s current predicament. Next spring’s Stories for the Anthropocene Festival in Stockholm aims to deal with this challenge. Numerous […]

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Fort McMurray as fictive image

Posted in Climate change, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2016 | 7 Comments »

With reality like this, who needs fiction? It’s from Fort McMurray, last week. Harrowing. While the impact of such images is undeniable, the debate over whether and how they are related to climate change is a debate the rest of us should not shy away from.

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Living in a bubble

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , on April 19, 2016 | 6 Comments »

I’ve been using the metaphor of the Sustainability Bottleneck in my teaching, but another one that is more immediately graspable is The Bubble. Two things landed in my in-box this morning that testify to this (but that’s a pretty daily occurrence, e.g., see this, this, this, this, this, this, and this, all from the past week). One […]

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