Can the climate change…from talk to action?
Two brand new books speak truth to doomism
Bringing clean energy to rural India by DFID, UK Department for International Development. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Meenakshi Dewan is one of four women in her Orissa village trained in solar power engineering
This Week Those Books is chock-full of crucial context — from fiction and non-fiction — to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.
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The Big Story:
The world’s annual climate summit runs in an Amazon rainforest for a fortnight (from November 10) with doomsters wondering if COP30 can deliver a decisive change from talk to action.
Host Brazil wants ambition and energy. The US, the world’s biggest economy, is absent and pushing for a global green retreat.
Our first book says climate change shouldn’t be depicted as a constant crisis:
…while it pursues the aims of raising the awareness of the public and politicians to the immensity of the issues at hand, it separates the realm of climate change from people’s everyday existence…It is unsustainable for a human system to stay in a constant state of alert or ‘emergency’ — it leads to the burnout and withdrawal from the issues.
We have two books. Read on
As a bonus read, here’s my recent piece in The New World: When climate fiction stops being fiction
Originally published at https://medium.com
