Andrew: You’re convinced we’re definitely going down, and fast. You’ve shut the door. Joanna Macy still holds that door open. She thinks we might make it through, though we very certainly may not. I pressed her on it. Was she just hedging her bets? No. And she’s designed her work to prepare us for both possibilities. I sum up her existential invita

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As we stare down the barrel of these changes, what are our political representatives doing? The institutional responses to climate breakdown are typically cast as either mitigation (to reduce emissions) or adaptation (to cope with the breakdown). But there is a third option: suffering.105 We are doing all three, and the efforts being made towards m

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