Yes. I, in fact, do enjoy crafting in pyjamas whilst gulping down a cup of coffee and some cookies.

With a bare ass grinding the shell (non-sexual).

I am currently reading The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy.

Stella Maris isn’t bad, but I am not so hooked as I was when I read The Road or when I struggled mentally to read the Blood Meridian (all that violence did go under my skin, but it was a valuable learning experience).

Morgan Housel’s book seems a like a light read and it is giving me that excellent a confirmation bias on what I believe is the nature of money.

I appreciate your insight, though I disagree with notion that we do not know the outcome. I think the question is when rather than what will happen. We have accumulated so much knowledge and information, but the problem is that information does not transform into action. It is not only climate policy, but other environmental sectors as well.

But anyhow, it is nice to exchange views.

Jem Bendell wrote, that even though there is no hope, we have a moral obligation to try to curb our emissions. I agree with him, there is no hope at this point to stay under 2 degree. CO2 levels are growing ever greater rate and we are hitting so many tipping points and ocean acidification is approaching the critical levels that marine life will die off in droves. And other environmental problems that we are making worse by the minute.

Maybe it is undermining our faith in people, that we should cuddle them in hope to expect any action. Perhaps we should just ditch hope and try something else.

Last book: Perfume: The story of a murderer by Patrick Süskind. I ravaged through it quite fast and enjoyed the descriptive writing style immensely. It’s supposedly a book with many intresting layers, but I loved as a novel about world of smell.

Currently: Though I tend to read several at the time depending on my mood, my main book is Breaking together: A freedom-loving response to collapse by Jem Bendell. I work with environmental stuff and I feel like we are past the point where ecological modernisation is a answer to all of our woes. It is well-written book and you can download it for free.

If I understood correctly, it is the drought in Spain, which is causing the flamingos to seek new feeding grounds. I feel like this is yet another problem caused by climate change, that we did not expect (though we knew animals will migrate). Maybe it is not all caused by CC, but definitely it had something to do with it.

James Joyce - Ulysses. I have let it rot away in the back of my mind, because of the “prerequisite” to read the whole western canon up to the point when it was first published. While this no exactly true, I can’t help thinking this way.

Someday.

This is how it goes. Read one book and two will take its place. Though I do not remember the last time I did not have anything to read, there is always something.