Opinion | An Artist Rethinks Climate Change in Words and Pictures
possible to observe the unfolding human attack on nature with horror, be determined to do whatever you can to stop it, and at the same time know that much of it cannot be stopped, whatever you do? Is it possible to see the future as dark and darkening further;
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
We need to show people that facing our climate future is not the end of the line. People are afraid of being paralyzed by despair. But that’s not what happens. Or, at least, that’s not what happens for long. Also, it’s critical to provide people opportunities
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
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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Nowhere do we need these kinds of stories more than in the context of climate change. So far, our ambitions only extend as far as halting the damage before it reaches truly catastrophic levels – as, for instance, with current targets to keep global average warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. But what if we went further, and aimed to return the atm
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“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace fearl
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