October 2022 Creation Corner Column
Environmental and Pandemic Books, Recent Quotes, COP 27, ELCA Climate Care Proposal
SECULAR BOOK TITLES ON THE ENVIRONMENT
At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth. Madeline Ostrander.
Border and Rules: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Harsha Walia.
The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructure of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau. Erika Marie Bsumek.
The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide fo a World Beyond Capitalism. Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan.
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work. Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, editors.
Greenhouse Planet: How Rising CO2 Changes Plants and Life As We Know It. Lewis H. Ziska.
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity. Alexandre Antonelli.
Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives. Steven Austad.
Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. Eleanor Boyle.
National Parks Forever: Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence. Jonathan B. Jarvis and T. Destry Jarvis
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. Michael Mann.
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World. Gaia Vince.
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth. Benjamin von Brackel.
Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them. Michael D. Bess.
The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature. Charlie Hailey.
Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell The Truth. Robert Shetterly et al.
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet. George Monbiot.
Tuzo: The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics. Nick Eyles.
Underland: A Deep Time Journey. Robert Macfarlane.
We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility. Michael J. Moore.
What Would Nature Do: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times. Ruth DeFries.
Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. Edited by Bruce Clarke and Sebastien Dutreuil.
PANDEMIC BOOK TITLES
COVID and Gender in the Middle East. Edited by Rita Stephan.
Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague. Samuel Weber.
The Social and Political Impact of COVID-19 in the United States. Beth Redbird, Laurel Harbridge-Yong, and Rachel Davis Mersey, editors.
States of Plague: /Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic. Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris.
Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague. Robert Zaretsky.
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Steven W. Thrasher.
What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology. Judith Butler.
QUOTABLE BAD NEWS: "UN chief: World is in 'life-or-death struggle' for survival." Associated Press headline, Oct. 4, 2022. (note: the reason or cause is that "climate chaos gallops ahead".).
QUOTABLE GOOD NEWS: "Biden administration launches environmental justice office." Associated Press headline, September 26, 2022.
TWO UPCOMING EVENTS:
1. NEXT U.N. WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE: Congress of Parties 27 (COP 27), November, in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
2. AN ELCA INVITATION to participate in the drafting of a social statement on climate care has been issued. To comment prior to December 2, go to elca.org/climatecare.
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