I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
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I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Saved by Zach Weismann and
And try to be kind when we can. And maybe even
It’s the amount of energy you put in for the amount of energy you get out. Once you’ve passed “peak,” it doesn’t matter how much energy you put in, you’ll get less and less out — until you reach the point at which no matter how much energy you put in, there is no return, because there is nothing left to extract. How you measure energy invested and
... See moreAny news I might bring has already been brought. Thousands of scientific papers. Millions of newspaper column inches. Anyone who cares to pay attention already knows that we’ve broken Nature, and the world we know will soon end. This park, for one, is done for. This city I love, home to almost nine million, and one of humankind’s most extraordinary
... See moreWhether they wanted it or not, I was going to shove it down their throats. I look back on that now,
exacerbate the inequitable distribution of suffering. There is no question that the climate is going to change, and bring with it a lot of suffering. The question is how we navigate it.
This can become a virtuous circle. In the end, it is always and only ever about relationships and organizing.
exacerbate the inequitable distribution of suffering. There is no question that the climate is going to change, and bring with it a lot of suffering. The question is how we navigate it.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Sure, but the way to stop a tipping point is not to freak out about 30% of the Amazon. It’s to devolve power and control to the people who are on the frontlines of that struggle and to return the power to them to self-govern their relationships to land and living systems and to fight back against the desecration of the sacred.