It’s not hopeful complacency or smug nihilism from here on, it’s selfless mitigation — Social media is primarily about confirmation bias. If you clicked on this article, chances are you already agree with its premise. You’ve found fault in both sides of the climate change debate — whether we’re going to “science” our way out of anthropogenic warming and ecological overshoot, or we’re irrevocably…

How does his popularity grow despite mounting criminal charges? I finally understood what it was all about. — Remember when it first happened? A celebrity real estate guy, a one-trick TV showman who fired people, was the insurgent outsider in the 2016 presidential race. Maybe you want to forget about it; I wouldn’t blame you. People alternately laughed him off, clutched their pearls in righteous indignation, or rationally…

Matthew Perry is almost me. But for the grace of God, as the saying goes. I didn’t grow up in Canada and star in a mega-zeitgeist TV sitcom in the ’90s; but I grew up in upstate New York (might as well be Canada)…

We’re on the brink of an absolute nightmare — here’s what has to happen now — We’re chroniclers, now, of climate change. We’re observing the drying up of rivers and lakes around the world, droughts in East Africa and parts of the US, floods in Pakistan, a hurricane devastating southwest Florida, and the melting of sea ice at the poles. Maybe we’re writing about it to…

The problem with folk heroes... is that they're folk heroes. People get very defensive about them (as seen in your comments). If Harvey Weinstein had been a political or cultural folk hero, you can bet millions would claim the deep state went after him, or make excuses for his behavior…

I hear that, and nowhere in this piece do I say we don't need systemic change. Instead, I'm doing a couple of things: --Presenting a logic that personal contribution matters as *part* of the effort to mitigate climate change. Something that can and should be considered. --Exploring what it means…

(Or, Why I am a Massive Climate Hypocrite) — Recently, my wife and I flew to Great Exuma, an island in the Bahamas. We had been wanting to do something to celebrate our ten years of marriage and fifteen years together. The brief history of goes: When we met, I already had a son and my future wife had…

I make a living writing fiction; here’s how I do it. — I’ve just read yet another article on self-publishing and Amazon. This one was called “3 More Reasons I’m Not Buying Your Self-Published Book.” As of November 14, it has 4.4k claps and 94 comments. A previous one I’d read, just the other day, has twice the claps called Why Writers…

We forget all of the people who have been working on climate change for years — I constantly run up against this problem: Some say climate change is bad, that it’s part of a polycrisis, that it’s a symptom of ecological overshoot, and I agree with it all. Then they say there’s nothing we can do, and I disagree. Because time and again, the way they…