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Every book Dr. Kate Marvel recommended on podcasts
Dr. Kate Marvel appeared as a guest on The Ezra Klein Show for the September 2023 episode titled What Have We Learned From a Summer of Climate Reckoning? During the discussion, Marvel engaged with pressing questions regarding climate change, scientific communication, and the emotional toll of environmental degradation. As part of the conversation on how storytelling can help society process ecological crises, Marvel recommended an upcoming novel titled Troubled Waters by Mary Annaïse Heglar. She shared that she had been fortunate enough to read a preliminary draft of the book prior to its publication. Marvel praised the novel as a warm, beautiful, and complex story that explores the intersection of race, family, and environmental disaster through the experiences of a southern Black family wrestling with the climate crisis. By bringing attention to Heglar's work, Marvel illustrated the vital role that fiction plays in making abstract scientific warnings deeply human and relatable. Her recommendation emphasized the value of narratives that center marginalized communities in the face of planetary emergency, offering listeners a profound literary entry point into understanding the lived realities of climate change.
Books recommended by Dr. Kate Marvel
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Troubled Waters
Troubled Waters is a novel by Mary Annaïse Heglar that explores complex themes intersecting with the climate crisis.
Recommended“and so there's a book which I've been fortunate enough to read a preliminary draft of it's called Troubled Waters it's a novel by Mary Anna is hegler and it's just a warm and beautiful and complex story about a southern black family wrestling with the climate crisis”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| What Have We Learned From a Summer of Climate Reckoning? | The Ezra Klein Show | 2023-09-05 | 1 |