Finished reading: Silent Spring Revolution by Douglas Brinkley. A fascinating book, though marred by its Heroes & Villains approach. I won’t say too much about it now, because I will have a long essay that draws on it in a future issue of The Hedgehog Review. But I will say now that we’ve seen a decline in effective environmental advocacy that’s due in part to overly abstract writing — too much about “the planet” and not enough about particular places — and also to a lack of focus, as illustrated by this NYT report on the collapse of the Sierra Club. It’s tough watching the big tech companies building these ecosystem-destroying datacenters with almost no coordinated resistance on behalf of the communities affected.