Notices by Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (susankayequinn@wandering.shop), page 5

@seanbala This comment made me happy. Thank you for posting it. :)

Help. Build bonds. Accept help. Repeat. Unlock resilience.

I've been thinking that climate fiction that imagines a future where we actually fight the crisis, a future worth fighting for, is super subversive (and it is) but I'm coming around to thinking that encouraging folks (even ones who aren't "writers") to engage in that imaginative act--imagine the future you want and what it would take to get there--is 100% part of how we fight this.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateFiction #ClimateSolutions

@adamgreenfield I'll be 58 soon & I'm full-time engaged in activities that I'll likely never see the fruition of (battling climate change)—planting seeds for trees under which I'll never sit. At the same time, I'm very conscious of spending time every day doing things I love. Of not waiting for ANYTHING. If it's possible to do, I do it now.

It's not just my keen awareness of my age, but losing 4 parents in 2 years (plus *gestures to everything*)...there are no guarantees. Do the things now.

#Pride

The more Dead Internet Theory becomes reality, the more determined I am to talk to my friends.

The more genAI pollutes the internet, the more determined I am to go to art festivals & buy real art from humans.

The more companies jack up prices for food made from primarily from petrochemicals, the more determined I am to eat veg from a local farm & make my own tortillas with flour from a local (solar-powered!) mill.

It's not possible to entirely opt out of the madness, but I'm sure gonna try.

Me: Shit is getting real all over the world with this climate thing, record heat, record floods, record hail. People don't understand. It's going to hit everywhere and it's going to hit them. And it's only May.

Also Me: watches hail fall as second power outage of the day hits.

The World*: criminalizes climate activists more every day

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

*the world's powers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/alarm-as-german-climate-activists-charged-with-forming-a-criminal-organisation

I keep saying we need more hopeful climate stories and that will only happen is IF WE WRITE THEM.

I highly encourage you to write your own story for Grist's Imagine 2200 contest.

Not only do you have a chance to win money, you'll have gone through the exercise of envisioning a better world.

Be brave! We won’t change the world if we all stay inside our comfort zones.

https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-contest-submissions/

#hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange @grist

SUPER COOL: My story will be in a #climate exhibit in NYC!

THE CLIMATE IMAGINARIUM: a community center for climate & culture (galleries, exhibits, performances, events) that respond to the climate crisis with visions for hope & justice.

There'll be a wall of stories w/QR codes to download & read!

WHERE: Governor's Island, NYC

WHEN: 11a — 5p Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, May-Nov

Launch May 18th:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-imaginarium-launch-party-on-governors-island-tickets-896416133787

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #ClimateFiction #solarpunk #hopepunk

SOLID TIP

@kfury

All of us. It will take all of us.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions

This is terrifying.

#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/29/copernicus-online-portal-offers-terrifying-view-climate-emergency

I mean... what the actual...

https://atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas

NEW PODCAST! Bright Green Futures is a podcast & substack where we lift up stories that imagine a more just & sustainable world & talk about the struggle to get there.

The purpose is to collect up hopeful cli-fi stories and writers in one place, so we can build community and work together to surface these stories & grow the genre.

Subscribing to the Bright Green Futures substack gets you the pod & the newsletter & a list of recommended #hopepunk and #solarpunk stories

https://www.brightgreenfutures.wtf

If you've been thinking of trying your hand at some hopeful #ClimateFiction, the Imagine 2200 contest is once again open to submissions! Having my story, Seven Sisters, place in this contest was a thrill but it just got better after that, connecting with the great people at Grist and the other storytellers.

And I get a little giddy every time I see the cover art for Seven Sisters in their promo material!

Highly recommend you submit!

#solarpunk @hopepunk

https://grist.org/imagine2200/

@grist

What seeds are you planting?

(there's so much debate about attribution for this, I'm leaving it unattributed)

A small press closing in part due to the burden of dealing with AI sludge. I hate this.

https://www.bardsandsages.com/closure-announcement.html

"A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence"

AI is going to kill us, just not the way the AI hype-mongers tell us.

(Hint: the *real* problems are never what the tech enthusiasts point to)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/07/ai-data-centers-power/

@Bryan @davidaugust @lkanies I literally had someone question whether Biden's new air pollution rules (which tighten particulate emissions) were really good "in the long run" because they thought that pollution would help counter global warming.

I don't know how we arrived at 2024 with this much confusion about pollution impacts... oh wait, yes I do. The relentless fossil fuel propaganda.

@Mabande I did my PhD research on the formation of sulfate aerosols at altitude from aircraft engine exhaust and I'm here to definitively say there is NO good impact from that, long or short term (despite whatever cooling effect might result) — but boy do the geoengineering enthusiasts love that idea. #TechWontSaveUs

@davidaugust @lkanies