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diff --git a/reading-log.md b/reading-log.md index e113f2e..f1cae92 100644 --- a/reading-log.md +++ b/reading-log.md @@ -6,6 +6,35 @@ author: Joe Carstairs ## 2026-04-30 +### @{forget-me-not} + +The climate crisis has already arrived, and it may soon be 'too late to turn +back', we have only 11 years (from 2019, quo IPCC) to avoid catastrophe. But +government action, COPs, IPCC, is all hot air. (Interesting mixture of +catastrophe-then and catastrophe-now models.) + +Pavelle doesn't want you to panic. Panicked people make poor decisions. She +wants you to go outside and fall in love with nature. + +The bees are disappearing, but you can help by planting flowers in a window box. + +Epilogue: I could write a utopia or a dystopia, but I don't want to, because +both futures are possible. It's up to us to decide which we get. We need to make +tough calls, lean on science, and have faith in ourselves. + +I like the move to restore relationships with nature, but I dislike the idea +that 'we' (that mysterious 'we' again) get to decide. I as an individual can't +decide whether we get a utopia or a dystopia, that's up to much bigger systems +than I can control, there's a hidden appeal to big global institutions to save +us, and an idea that you and I are somehow responsible for what those +institutions do. Lean on science, I'm not sure how I feel about that narrative. + +It is an interesting book demonstrating that multiple rhetorical agendas can be +overlaid in the same text. Should I restore my personal relationship with nature +as the catastrophe unfolds, or should I work to avert the catastrophe? Should I +take local action myself, or try to steer institutional action? Should I have +faith in my own powers, or learn to accept and live well with my powerlessness? + ### @{rewild-yourself} There was a theme of magic throughout. 'Magic trousers' are waterproof trousers, |