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  4. Jonathan Franzen questions ‘overriding priority’ of climate change

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  6. Birdwatching with Jonathan Franzen: 'Climate change isn't the only

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  5. The End of the End of the Earth

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  1. What If We Stopped Pretending?

    The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it. By Jonathan Franzen. September 8, 2019. Illustration by Leonardo Santamaria. "There is infinite ...

  2. Jonathan Franzen's climate change New Yorker essay angers ...

    The controversy over Jonathan Franzen's climate change opinions, explained. Scientists are pissed at the novelist — and at the New Yorker for publishing him. Jonathan Franzen. Sigal Samuel is ...

  3. Why Jonathan Franzen was right about how we should approach the climate

    Naturally, it caused quite a stir among the climate-change vanguard. Some accused Franzen of scaremongering, saying it would drive people to anxiety or paralysis, thereby hindering action. Others ...

  4. Jonathan Franzen's many controversies, explained

    In 2015, Franzen published another New Yorker essay arguing that the bird-conservation-focused Audubon Society was spending too much of its energy focused on climate change, leading the public to ...

  5. What If We Stopped Pretending by Jonathan Franzen

    This short book contains Franzen's by now infamous essay "What If We Stopped Pretending?The climate apocalypse is coming", but it's also a book about our cultural climate: When Franzen, a known environmentalist and bird lover, published his texts about climate change, he earned major shitstorms including a fair amount of commentators distorting his positions in order to disqualify him as a ...

  6. Is it too late to save the world? Jonathan Franzen on one year of Trump

    In a better essay, I might still have given Audubon the rebuke it deserved, but I would have found my way to more sympathy for the other people I was angry at: for the climate activists, who for ...

  7. Jonathan Franzen Despairs of a Planet Inhospitable to Birds

    THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH Essays By Jonathan Franzen 240 pp. Farrar, ... If you sit down to write about climate change and end up concentrating your fire on the Audubon Society, you've ...

  8. Jonathan Franzen's Conservation Essay Gets Climate Change Wrong

    Jonathan Franzen's latest New Yorker essay offers a dim view of how humans should prioritize two causes that are, according to him, in conflict: climate change and conservation.

  9. The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

    A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes—both human and literary—that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle ...

  10. The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

    A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like "a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them." For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk ...

  11. Birdwatching with Jonathan Franzen: 'Climate change isn't the only

    Jonathan Franzen's new book, The End of the End of the Earth, a series of essays, is released on 15 November 2018. Explore more on these topics The age of extinction

  12. Jonathan Franzen Pens Another Environmental Disaster Story

    Franzen's two climate essays are filled with false dichotomies. Contra Franzen, we don't have to choose between mitigation and adaptation—or between protecting wildlife and fighting climate ...

  13. The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen

    For Franzen, the apocalypse is largely climate change-related, but the death of conversation at the hands of technology, the end of a friendship through the natural passage of time, the nightmare ...

  14. Jonathan Franzen and the Paradox of Accepting Denial

    Franzen eventually comes to discuss his own inner turmoil—and ultimate regret—over a confrontational climate change essay he wrote in the past. Curiously, this regret ensues not because he disagrees with his past arguments, but because his bluntness lacked due "sympathy for the other people I was angry at" and even "forgiveness" for ...

  15. Jonathan Franzen's Controversial Stance on Climate Action

    Aided by deep breaths and closed-eye pauses, Franzen shared his thoughts on facts versus fiction, conservation efforts in the age of climate change, and of course, his beloved feathered friends. Sierra: Your new book of essays, The End of the End of the Earth , covers a range of subjects, from your love of birdwatching to climate change, and ...

  16. What Jonathan Franzen Gets Wrong About Climate Change

    Franzen articulated this grievance more clearly in his previous, widely panned New Yorker essay on climate change, in which he voiced frustration at the Audubon Society's misguided obsession ...

  17. Jonathan Franzen's made-up climate change model sparks online pile-on

    Jonathan Franzen's made-up climate change model sparks online pile-on This article is more than 4 years old 'As a non-scientist, I do my own kind of modelling,' claimed the author in the New ...

  18. Scientists Blast Jonathan Franzen's 'Climate Doomist' New ...

    In an essay titled "What If We Stopped Pretending" published Sunday, the journalist and author Jonathan Franzen wrote that the destruction of the planet by human-induced climate change is ...

  19. Jonathan Franzen: climate campaigns killing the birds?

    The author's suggestion in a New Yorker essay this week that bird populations would thrive if we gave up the fight on climate change is 'nonsense' say conservationists Wed 1 Apr 2015 10.29 ...

  20. Jonathan Franzen Says It's Too Late For Us on Climate Change ...

    Here are a few more reactions from around the web prompted by Franzen's essay: 4 corrections for Jonathan Franzen and other climate cowards (Eve Andrews, Grist) Jonathan Franzen's Climate Pessimism Is Justified. His Fatalism is Not. (Eric Levitz, New York magazine) Jonathan Franzen Pens Another Environmental Disaster Story (Jeet Herr, The ...

  21. Jonathan Franzen's Mighty Wind

    A recent article by Jonathan Franzen in the New Yorker asks if the conservation community's efforts to fight climate change actually detract from more immediate actions to protect birds and wildlife today. Below, Audubon and others from around the web answer this misguided rhetorical question with a resounding no.