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Though these actions are worth taking, a fixation on voluntary action alone takes the pressure off of the push for governmental policies to hold corporate polluters accountable. In fact, one recent study suggests that the emphasis on small personal actions can actually undermine support for the substantive climate policies needed.3 That’s quite con
... See moreMichael E. Mann • The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
It's Time to Reimagine Climate Activism
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what can we do? At one level, there’s a quite a number of things we actually can do, both individually: bike more, fly less, recycle, compost, go vegan, put solar on your roof; and collectively: divest your self/work-place/city/church/school from fossil fuels, make a community resiliency plan, block a pipeline, sue an oil company, pass a Green New
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Currently, we are on pace to re-create—in a couple of centuries—climatic conditions that previously took millions of years to bring about. Such a cataclysmic rate of change will outrun most species’ ability to adapt, and a new equilibrium will be a long time coming. Whatever that new world looks like, it will be a lonelier place, inhabited by a rel
... See moreJohn Vaillant • Fire Weather
The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovatio
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