Eclipsepunk - stress testing visions of better futures

scenarios, which we named Gray, Green, and Gaia. We crafted them as “news feeds from the future,” and included a guiding strategy document. Andrew: OK, let’s take it from the top. Gray? Gopal: Gray is more or less business as usual extrapolated out. It’s the mostly collapsitarian view of how the social and ecological implications of climate will pl

To convince our brains to do the hard work of imagining hard-to-imagine futures, we have to move out of a state of boredom, distraction, or indifference and into a mindset of high interest, curiosity, and attention. The asteroid scenario, while far less probable than a mass climate migration, is a much more vivid kind of crisis to imagine.

Visions of dystopia are nothing if not plausible and realistic. We must also make just and liberated futures irresistible.

While our goal is to improve confidence in facing uncertain futures by providing tools and instilling clarity of vision, if we are to advance future-making efficacy it’s critical to recognize these perceived inequities and limitations on agency.