Jonathan Gilligan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jonathan Gilligan

@amyjccuddy Rising Tide by John Barry We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be Killed With Our Families, by Philip Gourevich King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by @radleybalko

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@cityatlas Avner de Shalit's excellent book, "Why Posterity Matters" argued that religions are uniquely suited to address climate change b/c they're the only institutions with a record of planning and carrying out large projects (e.g., building cathedrals) on time spans of many generations.

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@nalanpog @michaelvandenb6 @matthewgburgess @maxboykoff @kristiansn89 @kentbuse @bmj_latest @Amanda__Carrico You're drawing a false distinction. Mike and I have written about how consumption choices can also influence others, and that's a large part of their power. See Robert Cialdini's work on how individual actions add up to create descriptive norms, which influence others.

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@RogerPielkeJr Andrew Gelman's analysis in Red State Blue State Rich State Poor State is well worth reading, as I am sure you have done, and it warns us against the ecological fallacy. In red and blue districts alike, lower-income people vote for Democrats more than higher-income people. ...

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Reading Susan Faludi's "Backlash" after Dobbs. "if any feminist progress is going to prompt outrage and resistance from misogynists, then feminists have just as much to lose from tepid steps as they do from big ones." https://t.co/ZK9hgDBSdN https://t.co/UG4Dh5UxuV

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@GaryPolhill The theologian Dorothee Soelle has a very good book about this. "Suffering" (Fortress Press, 1975).

Jonathan Gilligan

@amyjccuddy @radleybalko The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein Cadillac Desert by Mark Reisner Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidmic by Craig Timberg & Daniel Halperin

Jonathan Gilligan

@amyjccuddy Rising Tide by John Barry We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be Killed With Our Families, by Philip Gourevich King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by @radleybalko

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Alexander Hamilton warned in Federalist 22 that to give a minority the power to block the will of the majority would make the nation ungovernable and lead to anarchy. You'd think an outfit called "The Federalist" would be familiar with this document.

Jonathan Gilligan

@freddieoconnell @nkornutick See Ben Barber's books, "If Mayors Ruled the World" and "Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming" https://t.co/YjU81Qtbiz