this is such a good essay about such a horror that I really struggle to express. I’m a Floridian who moved to the northeast a few years ago, and my family lives on the gulf coast still, so I watch like this every hurricane season. (I wrote about the why-didn’t-you-evacuate thing on social media after Ian hit my hometown bc it made me so mad: https://open.substack.com/pub/sluggish/p/the-psychology-of-not-evacuating )
Idk if you ever read fiction but I read The Light Pirate this summer and I kinda can’t stop thinking about it.. it’s about a girl born inside a hurricane and her life throughout the slow collapse and abandonment of Florida, which she refuses to leave. I’ve been reading a lot of speculative fiction and magical realism about climate change bc my grief feels too big for facts and numbers, but I’m going to slowly dig into the books you mentioned here.
Anyway, thanks for your words, I love to read them. 💜
Thank you for writing this! I love the way you point to the incongruity of the octopus in the parking garage. I am in Asheville now and everything is still so chaotic that sometimes it is difficult to remember that this is not normalcy. It takes something like an octopus in a parking garage to remind us how unnatural this is, and to spur us towards bolder action against climate change.
Here's my own thoughts on the small details of the hurricane as they continue to unfold.
Thank you for writing this. Also, we felt the effects of Helene in eastern Wisconsin. We had small craft and beach advisories on Lake Michigan all weekend that finally expired yesterday.
Americans are climate refugees on US soil. Bombing others into a similar situation and heightening climate crisis is as great a crime as anyone can commit. It is the NUMBER ONE CRIME.
The utter cruelty at the US border turning away climate refugees is exhausting and incomprehensible.
It might take as many as 8 years, but if we are lucky as few as 5, for our continent to demand better. This is not a livable 21st century.
The hyper rich cannot steal the future from us. The lapdog media, the corrupt politicians, the greedy CEOs and their militarized police must get out of the way.
This hit a bit too close to home, being a Gulf Coast-area resident and I absolutely loved reading it. A great many points were made and a greater number of thoughts were provoked.
I've always been on the fence about climate change. Is it real? Is it not? How severe is it? Is it over hyped? Under hyped? How much misinformation is out there?
However, I truly admire your dedication in researching and writing about it.
With all the naivety, I ask for your recommendation(s) on where to start reading. Perhaps you can provide an entry level read? Followed by an intermediate read?
This is fantastic. Thank you for writing it.
Thank you!
A fantastic, must-read. Thank you!
Thank you!
this is such a good essay about such a horror that I really struggle to express. I’m a Floridian who moved to the northeast a few years ago, and my family lives on the gulf coast still, so I watch like this every hurricane season. (I wrote about the why-didn’t-you-evacuate thing on social media after Ian hit my hometown bc it made me so mad: https://open.substack.com/pub/sluggish/p/the-psychology-of-not-evacuating )
Idk if you ever read fiction but I read The Light Pirate this summer and I kinda can’t stop thinking about it.. it’s about a girl born inside a hurricane and her life throughout the slow collapse and abandonment of Florida, which she refuses to leave. I’ve been reading a lot of speculative fiction and magical realism about climate change bc my grief feels too big for facts and numbers, but I’m going to slowly dig into the books you mentioned here.
Anyway, thanks for your words, I love to read them. 💜
Thank you Jesse! I’ll definitely add that book to my reading list! 💜
Thank you for writing this! I love the way you point to the incongruity of the octopus in the parking garage. I am in Asheville now and everything is still so chaotic that sometimes it is difficult to remember that this is not normalcy. It takes something like an octopus in a parking garage to remind us how unnatural this is, and to spur us towards bolder action against climate change.
Here's my own thoughts on the small details of the hurricane as they continue to unfold.
https://riahnewfont.substack.com/p/bearing-witness-in-a-hurricane?utm_source=substack&utm_content=feed%3Arecommended%3Acopy_link
Thank you for writing this. Also, we felt the effects of Helene in eastern Wisconsin. We had small craft and beach advisories on Lake Michigan all weekend that finally expired yesterday.
Americans are climate refugees on US soil. Bombing others into a similar situation and heightening climate crisis is as great a crime as anyone can commit. It is the NUMBER ONE CRIME.
The utter cruelty at the US border turning away climate refugees is exhausting and incomprehensible.
It might take as many as 8 years, but if we are lucky as few as 5, for our continent to demand better. This is not a livable 21st century.
The hyper rich cannot steal the future from us. The lapdog media, the corrupt politicians, the greedy CEOs and their militarized police must get out of the way.
This hit a bit too close to home, being a Gulf Coast-area resident and I absolutely loved reading it. A great many points were made and a greater number of thoughts were provoked.
I've always been on the fence about climate change. Is it real? Is it not? How severe is it? Is it over hyped? Under hyped? How much misinformation is out there?
However, I truly admire your dedication in researching and writing about it.
With all the naivety, I ask for your recommendation(s) on where to start reading. Perhaps you can provide an entry level read? Followed by an intermediate read?