Extra special thanks to everyone who took part in this past Sunday's discussion of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warning by David Wallace-Wells. Filled with important information about the state of the planet today and soon, this book was not light reading during a pandemic!
We began and ended our reading cycle for the first part of 2020 with the environment, beginning with Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (which is referenced in the "Storytelling" chapter of The Uninhabitable Earth) and concluding with The Uninhabitable Earth. Both authors wrestle with humanity's struggle to comprehend or accept climate change and take cohesive, consistent action.
As usual, a number of links came up for further reading, viewing, exploring, and debating including:
"An Open Letter to David Wallace-Wells" (The Ecologist)
"Pulling Down Our Monuments," the Sierra Club's recent statement about John Muir and other founders and leaders
The United Nations' reports on climate
Futurist Nick Bostrom's TED Talk - "How Civilization Could Destroy Itself--and 4 Ways We Could Prevent It"
Next Month
For our August reading, we will be diving into California history with Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona, considered one of the great ethical novels of the 19th century.
Sunday, August 16, 2020
11 a.m. to approximately noon
Online (The Zoom link will be sent closer to the date via our Google Group.)
To purchase the book through our bookstore partner, Books Inc Opera Plaza, please click here. Many, many editions exist of this book.
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