What I'm Reading: Issue 3
I call these pieces “What I’m Reading”, but you and I both know that an intelligent person consumes more than one kind of information. Books, videos, newsletters, podcasts, mainstream news, alternative news…the list goes on. Although to be completely honest, I have yet to find an “alternative news source” that is reasonable, logical, and not laced with crackpot theories.
Let’s look at what I’ve been reading and watching over the last few weeks.
Non-Fiction
5 Items That Will Skyrocket in 2023
An educated and thoughtful look at items you might want to stock up on, including an in-depth examination of how prices are driven.
Can we reduce fertilizer use without sacrificing food production?
Pretty self-explanatory, right?
While most people never think about this issue, it’s an important one to consider for both large commercial growers and home gardeners alike.
“When Technology Fails (book) Matthew Stein
Stein not only shows you how to live green in seemingly stable times, but to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe. Each chapter describes skills for self-reliance in good times and bad.
A survey of the risks to the status quo
Supplies and preparation for short- and long-term emergencies
Emergency measures for survival
Prepping water, food, shelter, and clothing
First aid, low-tech medicine, and healing
Securing energy, heat, and power
When Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive note with a chapter on “Making the Shift to Sustainability,” which offers practical suggestions for changing our world on personal, community, and global levels.
Videos I’m Watching
The Coming Food Crisis No One Is Discussing
How beneficial insect population will affect our food supply. “If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into a state of chaos.”
E.O Wilson
Newsletters That Caught My Attention
Sustainability By The Numbers
Is The World Approaching ‘Peak Fertilizer”?
The Weekly Anthropocene:
Fiction
‘Wildflower’ by Cathleen Collins & Bold Strokes Books
Tell us in the comments section what you’ve read or watched over the past few weeks that impressed you.
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I’m reading a great book The Treeline as research for an upcoming short story. And I read Seeds of Resistance by Mark Schapiro as research for a short story that I’m currently serializing on my Substack. I recommend both.
Thanks for your recommendations. Talking about the food crisis, I also just finished The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It’s one of those rare sci-fi books that puts the food crisis at the center of the plot. Very well written and powerful book.