Today for #OnlySky, the next instalment of Humanist Book Club. Our discussion of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future explores the possibility of drilling polar ice to slow the rate of global warming.
I also use the opportunity to explore some confusing media reports around an IPCC report that predicted an "ice-free" Arctic much later than we'll probably get it.
(Science literacy & speculative fiction can go hand in hand. What fun!)
#ClimateCrisis https://onlysky.media/mclark/do-we-have-the-technology-to-ease-our-melting-ice-sheets/
I also posted a paid newsletter piece yesterday, part of which is free to read.
It's a more personal follow-up to last week's piece on Niger, Nigeria, & national myth - and discusses multidimensional poverty in a way that hits closer to all our homes.
If the topic interests, I can send the rest privately. (This semi-paywall strategy for second posts each week isn't my favourite, but trying to build a paid subscriber base requires nonsense like this. Oh industry.)
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/what-multidimensional-poverty-takes
@MLClark Yesterday's On Point radio program on NPR was about Niger. It was very good.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point