Meet climate scientist Kate Marvel - a biographer of "Earth in nine emotions"
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Kate Marvel is a cutting-edge climate scientist and communicator who describes her first book, Human Nature, as a “biography of the Earth in nine emotions.” The book is a bracing and deeply personal tour of climate science, planetary history and the array of hopeful and/or heartbreaking environmental futures ahead, depending on choices made or avoided now. Learn about Marvel and the book at marvelclimate.com.
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Marvel, at one time a Columbia University colleague of mine, was a guest previously in an early Sustain What show on ways to limit harm from online harassment - an issue that is sadly more pressing than ever:
In this Thriving Online session, Viktorya Vilk, who directs digital safety and free expression programs for the writers’ organization PEN America, discussed how the organization’s online-harassment “field manual” and training might benefit thousands of scientists who’ve entered the public sphere to help society make informed choices in a pandemic and around hot issues like climate change.
PEN America, the U.S. branch of a global organization defending authors’ and journalists’ freedom to write, has been around since 1922. But the organization has been quick to adapt to the online communication environment, developing a variety of initiatives helping writers fend off toxic and sometimes dangerous attacks.
Here’s PEN’s Online Harassment Field Manual.
Along with Kate Marvel, the other scientist guests were the climate-focused ecologist Jacquelyn Gill of the University of Maine and virologist Angela Rasmussen.
Why do we need to “feel” about climate change. There are higher and lower cost ways of reducing future harm of CO2 emissions. What does “feeing” have todo with it?