Coming to terms with climate change and its effects while living in constant uncertainty about the world’s future is challenging for any human being.

If this all seems small and insignificant in the face of what I’m writing about here, I get it. We have been trained to think this stuff doesn’t add up to much. But consider that over the last five to ten years, almost every smart and well-credentialed climate thinker I read says the same thing: the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best

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At the global level, climate change and other systemic crises often feel abstract and overwhelming—too big to grasp and too complex to act on. But when we zoom in to the bioregional scale, something profound happens: the 'polycrisis' we speak of suddenly has a face, hands, and legs, as Leon Seefeld aptly put it, in a recent webinar. It becomes... See more

Its relentless trajectory: To bring it on, all we have to do is, um, nothing. Its overwhelming complexity: To fix it, not only do we have to do something, but, as Naomi Klein has said, we pretty much have to “change everything” about how our economy and society operates. Its asymmetries of power: Those of us most historically responsible for

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