Trout Lake, BC
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My excellent and insightful and supportive colleagues at @GeogSFU are hiring for a super important position in the climate science of extreme events. If this is up your alley please check out the position and/or spread the word.
sfu.ca/geography/about/work-…
"Nigeriens can count."
Another powerful update from @majapearce in the @LRB
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n20/…
In case folks are interested I have a new piece out on country music in @nybooks, which I hope you find worthwhile, even if it is not your thing. It is my thing.
nybooks.com/articles/2023/11…
A new piece on climate & uncertainty. I hope folks find it worthwhile, and thanks in advance if you get a chance to read it.
Thanks very much to @KirstenZickfeld, @alybatt, @MichelleBonner and Panos Grames for help along the way.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n17/…
Excellent review of Brett Christophers' and @gmorgenson's new books on the scourge of asset management
thebaffler.com/salvos/kudzu-…
Is there a better writer than @BaptisteOduor working right now? There can't be many. Seriously, he could write about paint drying and I would probably be riveted.
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
A review of Earth Transformed. The editors chose a harsher way to describe it than I might have, but it's true I do have some serious concerns if the book is described as a "masterpiece". What it does do, I think, is epitomize the liberal understanding of climate change.
Hailed as a masterpiece, Peter Frankopan's sprawling climate book The Earth Transformed is a flawed history that has little to teach us, writes @GeoffPMann. newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/…
A new piece on the politics of economics in the @LRB. As always, apologies for the self-promotion but hoping it's of interest to some.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/…
Am I to understand that the Ontario government is actually telling First Nations "we don't owe you any reparations for colonialism because we spent all that money colonizing your land"?
theguardian.com/world/2023/f…
"Whole towns of people had wished for rain but now every drop they’d ever wanted was being released all at once."
Beautiful and powerful piece on the @LRB blog by Chloe Hooper (whom I could not find on twitter)
lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/november…
This, from @bradwbryan, needs to circulate widely. Super important to Canadian political discussion about Indigenous community finances, so much of which is based in lies.
theconversation.com/indigeno…
Reversing the Freight Train lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/…
A piece on degrowth in the new LRB.
I hope folks find it worthwhile, but even if not, @simplesanj, @MichelleBonner, Shalini Satkunanandan, Brett Christophers & Joel Wainwright made it way better than it would've been.
"If you're around long enough, you tend to discover how foolish you've been, and if you discover enough times how foolish you've been, it dawns on you that you are undoubtedly foolish now."
-- Philip Levine
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A reminder/encoragement to all OneCity folks to support @MrMatthewNorris tomorrow and Friday!
Thank you @GeoffPMann for endorsing my nomination campaign with @OneCityVan. It has been my privilege to sit with Geoff on the Steering Committee of the @CCPA_BC, which continues to public great work, including a study on upzoning Vancouver’s low-density areas. #vanpoli
In the hope it might be of interest, I wrote about the relation between climate change and facisms present & future for @NewStatesman
Is fascism really the "wave of the future"? A critical intervention by @GeoffPMann that situates the ongoing debate about fascism in the context of climate crisis and permanent emergency. Such a pleasure to work on this one. newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/…
(Apologies for self-promotion) but here's my review of Nordhaus' Spirit of Green in the latest @LRB: markets, discounting, & the ethics of long-run growth estimates at a moment when the economy of the past seems an unhelpful model for the future.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n03/…
What a beautiful tale of the translator's own dive into the text. A remarkable translator too! The task seems unimaginable with this crazy (in a good way) book.
(I'm in Canada, but could not wait for the NA publication and ordered from across the sea. Presently halfway through)
Happy U.S. pub day to Olga Tokarczuk's wonderful historical novel THE BOOKS OF JACOB. For @lithub, I wrote about how I translated each sentence of my favorite passage, on God as omnisensitive oyster: lithub.com/the-order-of-thin…
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I just renewed my membership with @OneCityVan to support @MrMatthewNorris's plans for Vancouver city council.
Encouraging all who can to do the same. Check out his website: matthewnorris.ca
The deadline to sign up is Feb. 6th.
p.s. they also already have awesome people to support, like @christineeboyle and @reddyforchange
Matthew will make them even awesomer.
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