The era of cheap living is over
We’ve lived this way for decades, but if we are going to address climate change it’s time for us to recognize that the era of plentiful, cheap goods is over. We will pay more for everything.
climate change responses
If you still want 1.5 – think twice and think deeply
With the world’s eyes currently glued on COP26, it’s time to take a fresh look at how we handle global, protracted crises.
Why 4°C?
It’s worth considering that today’s children could still be around in 2100 and beyond when the global temperature increase could be 3 degrees C and higher.
Path to Extinction or Path to a Livable Future?: Review
It is well past the time to face hard decisions of how to reduce obscene levels of corporate production instead of fiddling with perpetual energy fantasies while the planet burns.
COP-26: Stopping Climate Change and Other Illusions
Unless and until we accept that we must live within ecological limits, then climate change will not be adequately tackled. Energy and resource consumption must be addressed through controlled economic contraction.
The Path to a Livable Future
The possibility for a just and sustainable future exists, and there’s plenty that we can do to get there before it’s too late.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 57 Sky Nelson-Isaacs
Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a physics educator, speaker, author, and musician. He brings together the connection between synchronicity, physics, and real-life using research and original ideas. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Move or Change: How Plants and Animals Are Trying to Survive a Warming World
Thor Hanson’s new book explains the biology behind climate change and why some species may be better able to survive a quickly changing planet.
From Popovers to Popunders: The Kind of Decarbonization That Can Succeed
A downsizing economy will require a smaller and smaller energy supply; in time, energy demand will become modest enough that it can be fully satisfied with renewable sources, sustainably deployed.
7 Aspects of Civilizational Transformation
In her maturity, the true environmentalist visualizes the seriousness of the current situation and assumes the need for a radical and profound change, for a civilizational transformation.
The Power of Personalizing the Climate Crisis
“You need the kinds of stories of change and of characters that you can believe in, who have gone through this sort of big transformation in order to show you that such a thing is possible—it is necessary and possible,” Patel says.
How can we safely collapse systems of domination, and so, flourish?
The climate chaos that we are witnessing makes it inescapably clear that dominating others harms oneself, and that this system of domination will inevitably end—whether through ecological disasters or our collective action.