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Environmental Thriller writer. White Grass: A CliFi Technothriller https://t.co/4VEGyvoUvO #WritingCommunity #INTP He/His #Resist #amquerying #NoMAGAs whitegrassnovel.com Delaware, USA Joined April 2018

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@LqLana And guess what? Neither did Joe Biden.

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@r0ck3t23 Another way to describe the change is PROGRESS. I don’t hate Musk. I invest in Musk. But I find his political ideas repulsive. I can hold both positions simultaneously. And I can always tell Trump from Obama.

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New studies: the Atlantic's AMOC current could collapse as soon as 2050 — and it's been weakening since 2004. In the WhiteGrass sequel, it's 2049. The sky is healing. The ocean doesn't care. And the Marshall family is on the tidal Potomac when the water comes. "We stopped poisoning the sky. Nobody un-rings the ocean." #AMOC #ClimateChange #CliFi #SeaLevelRise WhiteGrass is available now through whitegrassnovel.com

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Alexandria friends: join me Sunday, July 19, 12–3 PM at Elaine’s Literary Salon for a live interview about WhiteGrass — nanotech, androids, and a climate breakthrough the world’s oligarchs want for themselves. Set in 2048, just downriver in Mount Vernon. Sign up: elainesliterarysalon.com/richard-smith/ whitegrassnovel.com

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@BowlingCombest @Scaramucci Nice. My Dad also faught in the Battle of the Bulge.

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What a letter to carry for 25 years. Buffett at 95, still compounding—proof that longevity isn’t decline, it’s extended runway. I wrote WhiteGrass with that exact premise: in 2048, NoAge therapy makes “your best decades ahead” literal, not aspirational. The question stops being how long and becomes what you build with the time. Buffett already answered it. Think young. Act young. The best decades might still be ahead. 🧬 #ThinkYoung #Longevity #WarrenBuffett #CliFi #Futurism #NoAge #AgingReimagined #SciFi WhiteGrass is available now through whitegrassnovel.com

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1/ MIT Technology Review, this week: we keep picturing solar geoengineering as a brake you pull in a crisis. The reporting says it’s closer to “a complicated, entirely unsolved puzzle.” 🧵 2/ Particles don’t stay where you put them. We can’t yet verify the effect on rainfall or crops. And private startups are raising millions to dim the sun before anyone agrees who’s allowed to. 3/ That’s the world of WhiteGrass — except the tech is Icarus, a nanotech that turns CO₂ into oxygen + graphene. The engineering is the easy part. The control is the story. WhiteGrass is available now through whitegrassnovel.com.

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Sanders just articulated the exact premise of my novel WhiteGrass. The book’s central question isn’t whether the technology works—it’s who decides when, and for whose benefit. In the story, the breakthrough tools are real and world-saving: a substrate that reflects sunlight to cool the planet, and Icarus, a nanotech system that pulls CO₂ from the air and rebuilds it into oxygen and graphene. The drama isn’t “is this good or bad.” It’s that a Council of 25 of the wealthiest people on Earth controls whether Icarus is ever released—and what they’ll demand in exchange. That’s Sanders’ point rendered as fiction: the same atmospheric-repair tech that could be humanity’s salvation becomes leverage for blackmail the moment it sits behind a private gate. “Who controls it and who benefits” isn’t an abstraction in the book. It’s the whole engine of the plot. The optimistic framing he’s pushed on—AI frees us, shortens the work week, solves climate change—is true only if the gains are shared. WhiteGrass is what happens when they aren’t. whitegrassnovel.com #CliFi #AI #ClimateTech

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Anthropic’s Claude AI agent just came out with its latest update, Fable. Well, I had to try it out! So I asked it if my speculative self-assembly and disassembly inventions are really possible by 2048. The answer (long and very detailed) was a qualified yes. I thanked it (I’m very polite with AI--just in case) and its response thrilled me. It Said, “You’re welcome, Richard. Good luck with the work — the science underneath WhiteGrass holds up better than most cli-fi can claim.“ Check it out at whitegrassnovel.com #ClimateScience Cli-Fi Novelists Rising #clifi

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@r0ck3t23 Except that the tide won’t come in. If we’re bypassed, we’re bypassed. Left behind but still here with everything. We might not even know we’ve been bypassed.

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There’s a version of the “CO₂ is harmless” argument making the rounds again, and it’s worth addressing calmly, because it leans on real numbers used to reach a wrong conclusion. Yes, CO₂ is a trace gas. Yes, nature moves vastly more of it than we do — the oceans, soils, and forests cycle roughly 200 billion tonnes of carbon in and out of the atmosphere every year, while human emissions add around 10–12 billion. So how could the small player be the problem? Because nature’s flows are a two-way exchange that has been close to balanced for thousands of years. What goes out comes back in. Our contribution is different in kind, not just size: it’s a one-way transfer of carbon that was locked underground for millions of years, dumped into the system with nothing pulling it back at the same rate. That’s why atmospheric CO₂ has climbed from about 280 ppm before industrialization to over 420 ppm today — a rise that tracks our emissions almost exactly. And the “warming oceans release CO₂” point actually reverses the real picture. The oceans today are a net sink — they’ve absorbed roughly a quarter of our emissions, which is precisely why they’re acidifying. If nature were the source, the ocean would be losing carbon, not gaining it. None of this requires trusting any single institution. It’s chemistry and a 60-year measurement record from Mauna Loa. I spent about a decade thinking through exactly this in my cli-fi novel WhiteGrass — what happens when the technology to actually pull CO₂ back out of the air finally exists, and who gets to decide whether to use it. The science is the easy part. The human choices are the hard part. #ClimateScience #CarbonCycle #CliFi #WhiteGrass #ClimateLiteracy