>> Since I talked about this in the previous challenge: do you have climate fiction to recommend? Newer rather than older, definitely post-Bacigalupi and Vandermeer. Alternatively: your favorite non-fiction books about scenarios in climate change.<<
I think most of the climate fiction I've read is older, because well, I'm less interested in reading fiction about things that are current threats. :/
However, I do have a postapocalyptic hopepunk series of my own, Daughters of the Apocalypse. There are multiple factors playing into the End, but a major one is climate change. It was doing the research for this project that clued me to how we need not one but two more hurricane categories and are a few miles per hour short of needing Category 8. O_O "Nature's Great Masterpiece" describes some of the effects from hurricanes.
On the nonfiction side, I just discovered fire scientist Stephen J. Pyne who makes a compelling case for the Pyrocene. I read the articles, but he's got a book out too. California is on fire in the middle of its rainy season, so I did some research on that and found this batch of articles.
Last year I did an analysis of the Chobani yogurt solarpunk ad, which is a pretty cool vision of a better future. I like solarpunk because it's a viable alternative to cooking off the atmosphere like people are doing now, and I am especially interested in low-tech solarpunk because it's cheap, easy, and effective. Solarpunk is the "green tech" or "Earth steward" out of the four-futures paradigm.
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I think most of the climate fiction I've read is older, because well, I'm less interested in reading fiction about things that are current threats. :/
However, I do have a postapocalyptic hopepunk series of my own, Daughters of the Apocalypse. There are multiple factors playing into the End, but a major one is climate change. It was doing the research for this project that clued me to how we need not one but two more hurricane categories and are a few miles per hour short of needing Category 8. O_O "Nature's Great Masterpiece" describes some of the effects from hurricanes.
On the nonfiction side, I just discovered fire scientist Stephen J. Pyne who makes a compelling case for the Pyrocene. I read the articles, but he's got a book out too. California is on fire in the middle of its rainy season, so I did some research on that and found this batch of articles.
You might count Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination. It explains how to develop edible crops that will withstand whatever challenges your particular climate throws at it, which we will definitely need in a rapidly changing climate. I've seen one nursery that developed tomatoes capable of withstanding a hard freeze.
Last year I did an analysis of the Chobani yogurt solarpunk ad, which is a pretty cool vision of a better future. I like solarpunk because it's a viable alternative to cooking off the atmosphere like people are doing now, and I am especially interested in low-tech solarpunk because it's cheap, easy, and effective. Solarpunk is the "green tech" or "Earth steward" out of the four-futures paradigm.
Among the climate issues I'm watching closely are the ocean conveyor current and permafrost loss.