Last night four authors talked about the Climate Crisis. All had written books on the subject. When people have a shared language and knowledge base, the conversation can go much deeper. It was the smartest conversation yet on the climate crisis that I've heard.
Listening to the conversation felt theraputic, healing, affirming, because it made me feel not alone in my head with these terrifying visions of climate apocalpyse. I think about the climate crisis a lot and I sometimes wonder if I'm not just getting myself hot and bothered. (It would be pleasant to become a Climate Denier and hit the snooze button and shake of the nightmares.) So it felt good to know that smart people who write books are also freaked out, that I'm not the only one shuddering with visions of the death of the Biosphere, that the basic contours of my understanding of the climate crisis are correct.
The Northshire Bookstore brought together Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert and two others. Someday soon I will post a link to the audio of the event.
I want to be having a conversation on this subject, with people this smart, four nights a week. Can some TV producer please manifest a Climate Crisis Roundtable?
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