I’m doing research on dystopian literature right now, and I’ve been trying to collect academic work that deals with climate change and natural disaster. I’m also from the Midwest, so I am familiar with the Great Lakes and the problems that have plagued them in recent years. Dan Egan’s The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is a highly engaging examination of these issues, written in a clear, journalistic style. I knew vaguely of the arrival of the zebra mussels to the Great Lakes, […]
Holy Science
For the record, I am not Catholic, although I did go to a Catholic (Jesuit) university. When this text was first published it was all over the news about how the Pope was trying to influence the politics of environmentalism and how a religious leader should not talk politics or science. Naturally this was quickly countered by people pointing out that the Pope is technically a head of state (the Vatican being a sovereign nation) and also a scientist (an MA in chemistry). I saw […]