Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour
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Description: David Gessner is a New York Times Bestselling author, essayist, cartoonist, and creative writing professor. He is the author of 13 books...
No, no, you might say, I don’t want that: too depressing, I have my life to live after all. My things-to-do .
Well, consider taking a short break. Consider coming with me to places both beautiful and threatened. Yes, there will be more than a few dire facts about our warming world, and I will admit that during the year and a half of travel that constitutes this book, beginning with a visit to one abandoned capitol on the East Coast and culminating with a visit to another in the desert West, records were set for earliest storms, largest fires, latest first snowfall, hottest days, and an overall pace of catastrophe t
But facing that world, and not running from it, has this virtue: it is honest. And I, and maybe you, want to see and try to remember this still-beautiful planet. Its trees, its birds, its waters, its dirt and grass. This is a core difference between an activists’ make up and an artists’. Of course I hope we will stop devouring fossil fuel like drunken gluttons and of course I hope we avoid the worst consequences of climate change. But at heart I am not as interested in saving the world as I am in singing it
Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour
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