At such points, I always go back to @amitav.bsky.social ‘s brilliant analysis contrasting the Paris Agreement with the Pope’s Laudato Si’ in The Great Derangement, p150-159.

The former using torturous language and magical thinking and never addressing root cause, the latter, quite the opposite 2/

Writer Amitav Ghosh delivering the presidential address at the 2023 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California, on 11 December 2023.

Thrilled beyond measure that @amitav.bsky.social is here at #AGU23 to provoke #AGU members to consider the reductive qualities of many assumptions and biases about the #climatecrisis

It was an incredible talk! Thanks @amitav.bsky.social for coming to deliver it!

What a lovely first day of #AGU23 with some really neat science (Rifts! Meteorite impacts! Tsunamis! Supercontinents!) and a fantastic plenary talk by @amitav.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read Smoke and Ashes.

Still thinking about @amitav.bsky.social plenary at #AGU23 today, challenging the elite scientific view of the climate crisis and how actual humans in the actual world are responding

The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.

Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Ravi Bhalla, "Hoboken hasn’t reported a single traffic death since January 2017, and injuries have dropped 41%."

Literally the first thing I read after posting the chart above......gimme a chance to get emissions data, @amitav.bsky.social!

If anyone is in Utrecht this weekend, I’ll be at ILFU. The excellent Saturday programme includes Ali Smith, Salman Rushdie, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Jeanette Winterson, @kshams.bsky.social @clairedederer.bsky.social & @amitav.bsky.social. Trudy Dehue and I are reading at 2pm ilfu.com/agenda/trudy-d

The two most important books I’ve ever read are The Nutmeg’s Curse by @amitav.bsky.social, which documents the colonial depredations that have led to our ecocidal modern techno-industrial dystopia... (1/2)

Für DIE ZEIT habe ich über ein bemerkenswertes Sachbuch geschrieben: "Der Fluch der Muskatnuss" von @amitav.bsky.social erzählt die Kolonialgeschichte einer Pflanze. Und verbindet sie mit #Klimakrise, #Naturverlust, globaler #Ungerechtigkeit. Bei @zeitonline.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/2023/43/der-...

#11 - @amitav.bsky.social
(… a bit of a stretch, but so dapper & a standing-sign!)

On Writing the Unthinkable In your 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable you take contemporary literature to task for failing to address the climate and ecological crisis. Have fiction writers woke...

"Often you pick up a novel and you think: what are you writing about?  The whole wide world is disintegrating around you, and you can’t see it!"

Read this blazing interview with @amitav.bsky.social by Liz Jensen - today's blog on the Writers Rebel website.

writersrebel.com/on-writing-t...

Thanks Farhana!

Meanwhile, in Slovakia flocks of swans have become addicted to opium poppies

www.birdguides.com/news/swans-become-addict...