Reading for Anthropocene

Adaptation

• Preparing our cities for the climate crisis. Geophysicist Klaus Jacob on how we can adapt our cities to live with rising seas and heavier rains.

Agriculture

• Report: Increased Accountability, Sustainability Needed in Farm Credit System

Anxiety

• Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review Home Annual Review of Environment and Resources Volume 46, 2021 Ojala, pp 35-58

Degrowth

• Is “degrowth” the answer to the climate crisis? Economists Peter Victor and Robert Pollin debate the virtues of “degrowth” in avoiding climate catastrophe.

• Matt Huber criticizes the climate austerity camp. and and talks about it on Behind the News.

• Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics Verso, 2022

• Comments on Half-Earth Socialism by Doug Henwood

Delay

Research:

Oreskes, N., & Conway, E. M. (2011). Merchants of doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. Chapter 6. (Canvas) or “Who is Responsible for Climate Change?” by Naomi Oreskes

Amy Westervelt on disinformation and propaganda 🎧

Skim: “Does climate denialism still matter? The prevalence of alternative frames in opposition to climate policy” by Heather W. Cann and Leigh Raymond

Further Reading:

• New Research Shows the Clean Air Act Always Intended to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Damages

• “Fighting Climate Disinformation Is an Urgent Priority” By Aaron Regunberg

• The right-wing groups behind renewable energy misinformation: A conversation with journalist Michael Thomas 🎧

• Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis

• https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oreskes-supran-exxonmobil-20170901-story.html

• Brookings Institute, Elaine Kamarck, The Challenging Politics of Climate Change

Doomerism:

• Weekend Update: U.N.’s Climate Change Report - SNL

COP 26

What happened (or didn’t) at the COP26 climate summit, and what Bannon wants to do to the bureaucracy. Environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt reviews the accomplishments, or lack thereof, at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgo.

Geoengineering

• Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program

• Preparing the United States for security and governance in a geoengineering future by Joseph Versen, Zaruhi Mnatsakanyan, and Johannes Urpelainen, December 14, 2021

• Geoengineer the Planet? More Scientists Now Say It Must Be an Option BY FRED PEARCE • MAY 29, 2019 in Yale E360

Litigation

Juliana v. United States

What Comes After the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling? (Political Climate 7/7/2022 | 38 min) The U.S. Supreme Court wrapped up its term last month with a series of high-profile and controversial decisions — including on the case West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. In that opinion, a 6-3 majority determined the EPA does not have the authority to regulate carbon emissions…