Reddit mentions: The best tv history & criticism books

I've read the book the comic is quoting. I very much recommend it.

You could probably go to your local bookstore and have them order you a copy, but if you don't want to do that:
Amazon.co.uk have a copy as well as abebooks.co.uk. There only seem to be used hardcover editions. For a new copy your only option seems to be paperback.

Have you tried this one? https://www.amazon.com/Lie-Groups-Physics-Geometry-Introduction/dp/0521884004

Thank you! That site is much cleaner than most prepper blogs; it reminded me of The Wirecutter, but for prepping. And I imagine that that it's a relatively few people that have spent time with X-risk futurists and are into prepping. Interesting.

That Leah Stokes tweet they quoted,

>Love it when our most prominent outlets give voice to doomsday climate predictions that are wildly out of step with reality.

I hope she says that about... pretty much every climate change article in a major publication these days.

Those 3 points boil it down quite nicely, and I do think they cover the main sources of difference. It reminds me of the Remembrance of Earth's Past and the >!everyone survives or everyone dies, no 'saving remnant'!< attitude in the last book. For some reason it surprises me coming from journalists.

>I don't think modern environmentalists, even the ones with a more apocalyptic bent, are hostile to all localist solutions

Totally agreed! The hopeless apocalypticism seems most common among the "thinkpiece crowd" and many of the environmentalists I read are closer to that blog you mentioned, and the "Plan A/Plan B" bent. Resilience acts a sort of blog-host and aggregator combined, and I think the balance is slightly in favor of "Plan A/Plan B," but the current top post is a review of Naomi Klein's new book that says hope is dangerous and stupid.

>Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, has one crippling flaw—it’s inspiring. At this moment in history, inspiring talk about solutions to multiple, cascading ecological crises is dangerous.

I think it's a weird line to walk; I understand wanting to avoid complacency, but push too hard on the hopeless narrative and you'll just get people fiddling while Rome burns and amusing themselves to death.

>focusing on local solutions is fine in general, but can sometimes function as a rationalization for NIMBYism and a refusal to accept environmental trade-offs

Agreed. It's a danger, just like the potential abuses and overreaches of any policy. The NIMBY side of localism also interacts badly with the recent pushes for more immigration, which I think is what's behind most of the ire.

I am on the side of decentralization, sustainability, and localism, rather than... utter hopelessness and doomsaying.