arnoBeen on a reading binge these last few days and carrying it into the next year as well. Follow me on #Bookwyrm! https://bookrastinating.com/user/arnodegroote
Reed LindwurmJust added (to my account on Bookrastinating) a bunch of books that seem curious and which i've poked my head into sometime in recent days. laying the ground work for later figuring out what books I want to read next year and what kind of reading goal I want to set.
MishaDo you people know #Bookwyrm? The Fediverse alternative to Goodreads?
I am on a particular instance called https://bookrastinating.com/
Would love to connect to more #Fediverse friends, and be inspired by what you are reading!
Edit: I didn't add my actual Bookwyrm account 🤦: @misha
Joel 
Yooo my #Books2024 wrap up #2024InTheBooks from #Bookwyrm is up! Check it out!
Misha (on Bookwyrm)""... the refusal of so many environmentalists to consider responses to the climate crisis that would upend the economic status quo forces them to place their hopes in solutions—whether miracle products, or carbon markets, or “bridge fuels”—that are either so weak or so high-risk that entrusting them with our collective safety constitutes what can only be described as magical thinking.""
— Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything
This Changes Everything - bookrastinating.com
<p>In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation of the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. And she demonstrates precisely why the market does not - and cannot - fix the climate crisis, but will instead make things worse, with ever more extreme and ecologically damaging extraction methods, accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism.</p> <p>Klein argues that the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond to the climate crisis humanely should not be viewed as grim penance, but rather as a kind of gift - a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities and to heal long-festering historical wounds. And she documents the inspiring movements that have already begun this process: communities that are not just refusing to be sites of further fossil fuel extraction but are building the next, regeneration-based economies right now.</p> <p>Can we pull off these changes in time? Nothing is certain. Nothing except that climate change changes everything. And for a very brief time, the nature of that change is still up to us.</p>
"And yet still, at the upper echelons of the climate movement, our soaring emissions are never blamed on anything as concrete as the fossil fuel corporations that work furiously to block all serious attempts to regulate emissions, and certainly not on the economic model that demands that these companies put profit before the health of the natural systems upon which all life depends. Rather the villains are always vague and unthreatening—a lack of “political will,” a deficit of “ambition”—while fossil fuel executives are welcomed at U.N. climate summits as key “partners” in the quest for “climate solutions.”"
— Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything, p. 36
@bookrastinating Hi Bookrastinating people. Thanks a lot for making your server available for people like me. I'm a happy user.
I was just wondering how/to what extent the #Bookrastinating community is connected to the wider #Bookwyrm world?
As you make clear, the "Discover" option (https://bookrastinating.com/discover) shows me "what's new in the local bookrastinating.com community", but I suppose the Bookwyrm community is bigger than that?
Patuleia#Goodreads may be shit, but #BookWyrm / #bookrastinating it's not that good also.
ERATDo #Bookwyrm and #Bookrastinating not draw from the same sources? We get different results when searching on one versus the other -- if we add a book to one doesn't it become available for the other?
(Would it be preferable to stick to one federated book tracking platform?)
(Would it be preferable to stick to one federated book tracking platform?)
My #reading backlog on my website is finally up to date with my #Bookrastinating account lol
