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I am here to learn and face the truth, not avoid it and sometimes this can alas lead to confrontation when others prefer the latter to the former.

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" in the explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Grounding her work in the dynamic landscape of Miami but reaching far beyond its shores, Stephanie Wakefield illuminates the path toward a future where cities embrace opportunities for evolution rather than merely for survival"

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/miami-in-the-anthropocene

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The Five Stages of Global Warming
Denial <-- Miami right now.
Guilt
Depression
Acceptance
Drowning

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“Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions.” RIP Daniel Kahneman @philosophy

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This interview spring to mind when I heard the news. It really hit home when Daniel said that nearly a decade ago. Looking at emissions charts today seems to validate his thinking.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/climate-change-deniers-g7-goal-fossil-fuels

>In one strikingly depressing scene in his recent book Don’t Even Think About It, climate change activist George Marshall interviews the Nobel prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, the leading scholar of cognitive biases, and tries to nudge him into saying that understanding our brains’ limitations will, at the very least, make it easier to overcome them. “I’m not very optimistic about that,” Kahneman replies, despondently sipping tomato soup. “No amount of psychological awareness will overcome people’s reluctance to lower their standard of living. So that’s my bottom line: there is not much hope. I’m thoroughly pessimistic. I’m sorry.”

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@bookstodon I just reviewed WANDERING STARS, by Tommy Orange, and it blew my mind! I've selected it as one of my favorite books of 2024. My full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5872885938

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On Bookwyrm (Fediverse) for those of us not interested in dealing with Aamzons Goodreads.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1583443/s/wandering-stars

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appassionato , to bookstodon
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Not the End of the World How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them.
It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change.

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>It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change.

And it's Bill Gates etal doing it. Perhaps he's getting worried his privileged world will come to an end when civilisation collapses under the weight of the 1% and is hoping to have people keep looking the other way while he contiues to despoil the biosphere?

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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Drawing on reporting from around the world, Hot is a call to action that injects hope and solutions into a debate characterized by doom and gloom and offers a blueprint for how all of us, parents, communities, countries, can navigate an unavoidable new era.

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The doom and gloom comes from 80% of assholes doing the same thing, voting for the same politcans or worse, flying, driving etc ensuring the wealthy use thier weath to protect themselves from the extremes and keep emitting prodigiously making it worse for everyone and everything.

It's not climate Change per se thats casuibg this anxiety, it's the glorification of greed, stupidity and apathy by Governments and the Voters who supoort them.

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