pickI love this man‘s way with the world.
MacFarlane delves into the feels to reveal our human interactions with landscape in a way that feels peaceful yet disturbing, like a mirage in the distance that indicates a tremor is coming.
#mondaymood #nature #naturalhistory #underground #anthropocene #beforeitstoolate
pickA bleak read. I was put off by his smugness—he criticizes climate activists from the sidelines. But the author redeems himself in the final chapters with his call to save and rely on what literature and philosophers have taught us as our species makes a life after the climatic collapse ahead.
pickThe chapters about exactly how to define the Anthropocene gets sidetracked into humans doing badly at working in committees, but otherwise it's interesting stuff, if you can bear with the level of technical detail. I agree with the choice of the Orbis Spike for the start of the Anthropocene, and the suggestion to ditch/demote the Holocene. There's some interesting stuff on the way forward too; I want to read more about Universal Basic Income.
This book has been interesting in many ways, but it gets a little bogged down in describing exactly how the working committees for defining the Anthropocene function. I'd rather it stuck closer to the science rather than analysing the vagaries of definition by committee.
There's a breed of mosquito in Britain specifically adapted to the conditions of the London Underground. It stays active even in winter.
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Book swap day in the office! This is what I got which I have never heard of but am excited to try!
✅ pouring rain outside
✅ knitwear
✅ fancy tea
✅ good book
I‘m working late outside in this rain this evening so things could be better, but they could be a lot worse from the way they‘re looking this lunchtime
Next step in me being an unrepentant broken record about climate change ✊
My local council did an online consultation yesterday on its new environmental and waste management strategy. It took 2 people with elite degrees to read their 67 page consultation document and get to paragraph 5.1.1.4 where you realised they had no specific environmental regulations at all. Angry. Gathering citations for them.
pick4.75 ⭐️
This was an excellent and detailed look at the history of human civilization and our impact on the environment. I would highly recommend this for anyone interested in a more general analysis of the climate change issue without diving far into the politics surrounding it. It is a little jargon heavy which might not read well for everyone.
@Birdsong28 I‘m using this for a plant on the cover
#52booksin52 #nonfiction #mpls #twincities
so-soUndeniably lovely prose but a fairly breezy gloss if you know any of the subjects well. Still, I admire Ackerman for tackling such a huge subject and presenting such far-reaching subject matter in a cohesive way.
