We Are the Deluge Podcast
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Spoiler-free chapter-by-chapter podcast about the climate novel The Deluge by Stephen Markley, brought to you by Emily Crandall and John McMahon
Oooh thank you. I have actually used one of Milkoreit's pieces in the climate film/fiction class I've taught: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
The promise of climate fiction | 10 | Imagination, storytelling, and t
This chapter explores the possibility of strengthening people's imagination skills with the help of an unusual tool: climate fiction. It uses three novels that
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March 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Oooh thank you. I have actually used one of Milkoreit's pieces in the climate film/fiction class I've taught: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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I particularly enjoyed the part on tipping points and whose rationality counts.
Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Social tipping points everywhere?—Patterns and risks of overuse
Four patterns in the rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary scholarship on social tipping points jointly create a tendency to overuse the concept—seeing the world through “tipping-point glasses.” These...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I particularly enjoyed the part on tipping points and whose rationality counts.
Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
No spoilers, but one of us led a very impassioned discussion among our students about how hopeful (or not) the end of the novel is, and how they thought about that vis-a-vis the rest of the book!
February 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
No spoilers, but one of us led a very impassioned discussion among our students about how hopeful (or not) the end of the novel is, and how they thought about that vis-a-vis the rest of the book!
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I really enjoyed this episode, it captures so well how scientists keep getting played.
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
Behind the Curve
Prof. Josh Howe explores the paradoxical history of global warming.
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January 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I really enjoyed this episode, it captures so well how scientists keep getting played.
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
Thanks, and thanks for sharing this piece. Especially given our interests, this ends up being one of the major problematics of the novel as far as we're concerned, and Tony and Ash offer such useful ways for thinking about the politics of science.
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thanks, and thanks for sharing this piece. Especially given our interests, this ends up being one of the major problematics of the novel as far as we're concerned, and Tony and Ash offer such useful ways for thinking about the politics of science.