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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
... See morePaul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
twenty years of protracted diplomatic talk and laborious scientific study have so far failed to move the needle on emission rates.
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
as bad as climate doomism is, so is what she called “hopeium” — an unfounded optimism that someone else will come up with a magical climate solution akin to a silver bullet. “Underneath doomerism and hopeium is the question of ‘Are we going to win?’’” Ms. Heglar said. “That’s premature at this point. We need to ask ourselves if we’re going to try. ... See more
New York Times • ‘OK, Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
As writer Naomi Klein points out in On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, our “culture of the perpetual present” is not equipped to deal with the generations-long nature of the crisis.