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Had to think through this review for a minute. First, it’s hard to read a book like this about your hometown and recognize the places and the trees that he writes about. I know personally and professionally several of the people quoted here, and have a lot of respect for the work that they do.
Still, I think that Tidwell and I have fundamentally different frameworks to even conceptualize what the impacts of climate change will continue to develop into. It’s hard to seriously engage with a book that grapples with the issues inherent in geoengineering but only once makes the comment that less cars may in fact be better than fully electric cars. This book is an uncritical gaze on technological solutions, but spends no time on the people who will be left behind by them.
There are a few off handed comments about “developing countries” and indigenous peoples in what is now Maryland, but little reflection on what people is those countries may be proposing, or actual practices of those indigenous peoples beyond an assertion that they are no longer present. Maybe this book just isn’t for me.
Again, this is not to say that CCAN, or the elected officials in this book don’t do good work for my home state. I just find the viewpoint here to be limited—presented as all encompassing when it could be part of a much larger action.
Still, I think that Tidwell and I have fundamentally different frameworks to even conceptualize what the impacts of climate change will continue to develop into. It’s hard to seriously engage with a book that grapples with the issues inherent in geoengineering but only once makes the comment that less cars may in fact be better than fully electric cars. This book is an uncritical gaze on technological solutions, but spends no time on the people who will be left behind by them.
There are a few off handed comments about “developing countries” and indigenous peoples in what is now Maryland, but little reflection on what people is those countries may be proposing, or actual practices of those indigenous peoples beyond an assertion that they are no longer present. Maybe this book just isn’t for me.
Again, this is not to say that CCAN, or the elected officials in this book don’t do good work for my home state. I just find the viewpoint here to be limited—presented as all encompassing when it could be part of a much larger action.