On wind and wave: Marianne Brown & Marianna Dudley discuss history, politics and social effects of sustainable energy, based on their publications *The Shetland Way* (Brown) and *Electric Wind* (Dudley). Part of EBB's Climate Talk series. Marianne Brown spent many years working as a journalist in Southeast Asia and later in Britain as the editor of an environmental magazine. She now works for a community-owned renewable energy cooperative based in Bristol. Her book *The Shetland Way*, published by The Borough Press, explores the intersection of personal grief, community and the climate crisis in the Shetland Islands. Marianna Dudley is Senior Lecturer of Environmental Humanities at the Department of History, University of Bristol. Her work explores environmental change and its impacts on communities, places, and politics. *Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain*, published by Manchester University Press in October 2025 is the first academic history of wind energy in the UK. From the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century, it explores how energy has shaped a nation - and how a nation is reflected and refracted through energy. ------- EBB Talks: Climate. Avoiding the end of the world, navigating the end of the month In 2008, Mark Fisher popularised the idea that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism in his now-classic Capitalist Realism. In the years since, it has become ever-easier to imagine climate collapse than truly transformative solutions. So much of what is written, said and done about climate change is driven by the urgency of preventing ever-worsening climate impacts, imagined as “the end of the world.” But climate activism and green politics don’t happen in a vacuum. They also need to navigate the paycheck reality of the end of the month, and the real-politik of the world as we find it, increasingly featuring climate-hostile far-right populism. As apocalyptic climate futures loom ever larger, systemic political change can feel less and less possible. EBB’s Climate Talks ask what links the big, abstract questions around the end of the world with day-to-day concerns about making it to the end of the month. What role do energy, art, agroecology, food systems, policy and perhaps even (green) populism play in bringing the climate crisis into the kitchen table calculations of everyday life? In a series of events from autumn 2025 to summer 2026, East Bristol Books hosts authors, artists and specialists whose ideas give different windows into climate activism and politics in an era of populism, a prolonged cost-of-living crisis, and political upheaval.

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