We live in a time when it is crucial to meditate, but also, as Bernard Stiegler put it, “an emergency whose urgency means that it precisely excludes meditation”. Reading is a form of meditation, a form of thinking and feeling. It is a way of challenging time. Let’s read together in these next twelve months: twelve books that challenge time and provide therapy for climate madness. On my desk sits a pile of books that I’ve been meaning to read. I don’t do drugs, I don’t drink, and I seldom go to many parties. I buy books I mean to read. Some of them have become like friends. I’ve read them from front to back, scribbling in the margins and on the blank or semi-blank pages in the front and back. These books help me make sense of the climate madness we’re living through. I like the concept of global weirding. Hunter Lovins coined it in the 1990s[i] and it was popularized by Thomas Friedman.[ii] Katherine Hayhoe - one of the most famous (and [...]