Speed reading: Brian Morton finds hope for the planet
“‘Hope’,” wrote Emily Dickinson, employing scare quotes, “is the thing with feathers.”
“‘Hope’,” wrote Emily Dickinson, employing scare quotes, “is the thing with feathers.” It’s also the one-stringed lyre that continues to sound, even after Chaos is unleashed. Yet hope is a commodity at a premium in the current climate-change debate, which shuttles between apocalyptic pessimism and urgent, sometimes unreflective, calls to action. Good, then, to have three books that pluck at that fragile string.
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