Reckonings
Podcast
How do we shift our political views on criminal justice, climate change, and war? How do we overcome...
Principal Component Regression for Crop Yield Estimation: 2016
T.M.V. Suryanarayana and P.B. Mistry
Book
This book highlights the estimation of crop yield in Central Gujarat, especially with regard to the...
Science Tales: Lies, Hoaxes, and Scams
Book
A non-fiction comic book about science, scepticism and denial, Science Tales debunks media myths and...
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Book
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated The Mars House in Books
Oct 1, 2024
Ok, a short summary:
January Sterling is a climate refugee, escaping the floods and intense heat for the Mars colony of Tharsis. Life as an Earthstronger on Mars isn’t ideal. He and the other Earthstrongers are seen as a danger to the native Martians: they are much stronger because of the weaker gravity, even though they’re much smaller. January and his fellow Earthstrongers are discriminated against and given the worst manual labour jobs.
January meets a Martian politician who is staunchly anti-Earth stronger, an somehow ends up in a sham-marriage. Of course, it’s a slow-burn romance with lots of peril, lies and climate change politics.
My only complaint, is that in trying to make the characters asexual, they all read as being very male. Perhaps it was just the way I read it.
The Mars House has a lot to say about climate change and its refugees - and the predictable refugee-haters. Instead of boats, they arrive in space ships, and the inhabitants of Mars are as scared of, and enraged by, these people, as some elements in our own society today.
I really enjoyed this book, and I loved how different it was to Natasha Pulley’s previous books. Whatever will she write next? I’ll be waiting!
The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience
David Chandler and Jon Coaffee
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Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international...
Eco-Homes: People, Place and Politics
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It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to...
Wildfire Policy: Law and Economics Perspectives
Dean Lueck and Karen M. Bradshaw
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During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework...
Cultures of Energy
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Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way...
The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars
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The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more...