Ever since this damn book came out, people’ve been asking me questions: “Is there any hope?” “What can we still do?” “Why gallows humor?” What is your favorite color?” (Yes, someone actually asked me that.) From rural community radio stations in Iowa to Brian Eno’s studio in Notting Hill London to an “Ask Me Anything” session on the r/collapse Reddit thread to a trend piece in the NY Times, here are some of the conversations that resulted. Listen in if you’d like…
T-t-talkin bout my de-re-generation…
Conversations
SELECTIONS from the archive
Profile — “Climate Change Is No Laughing Matter. Or Is It?” — New York Times trend piece on how “Comedians…are increasingly turning their attention to the climate crisis” — February 9, 2024
Discussion — “The Poly-Crisis & How to Handle It” (passcode: e@6P7sFS) — interview w Stephen Reid of the Dandelion Project & Psychedelic Society — January 2024
Q&A — “Ask Me Anything” @ Reddit r/collapse thread — December 2023
Review — “The Climate Emergency and the Better Future That is Still Possible” — Micah Sifry’s The Connector — August 2023
Radio Interview (24:00) — “Meet the Writers” — with Georgina Godwin on MONOCLE Radio — July 2023; London
Book Review — The Financial Times names Better Catastrophe one of “The best new books on climate and the environment” — July 2023
Discussion (1:23:48) — “Conversations at the End of the World” with Dougald Hine — Dark Mountain — June 2023
Radio Interview (21:10) — “The Roundtable” — with Joe Donahue of Northeast Public Radio — March 2023
Excerpt — “How do you fix a predicament?” — Dark Mountain — February 2023
Interview — “Fanfare Q&A” — with Rebecca Foster of Forward Reviews — February 2023
