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Andrew: If we’re too narrowly focused on preventing climate change, we’re identifying the wrong problem, and we’re going to come up with the wrong solutions. In fact, we’re missing the real site of struggle. Gopal: Climate catastrophe is going to happen. I have no doubts about that. But to then say, it’s too late, all is lost, is to stay stuck at 3
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
the failures of the environmental movement, describing the ‘enormous miss’ of ‘asking everyone to do the same thing:
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Here, Richard Heinberg and his team at the Post-Carbon Institute return from their deep dives into economic trends and energy metrics to tell us “the Game is over” and we
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
it was trying to think through how to do the needful in the biosphere’s time of crisis, while orthodox economics failed to rise to the occasion, and stayed focused in its old analysis of capitalism, as if capitalism were the only possible political economy, thus freezing economics as a discipline like a deer in the headlights of an onrushing car.
Kim Stanley Robinson • The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Climate change is no longer something we can reverse, but something we have to adapt to, cope with and mitigate as much as possible.