Climate Crisis
Let's rewrite the ending of this story: From climate crisis to climate solution.
Climate Crisis
One of the major lessons we learn from the unique complexity of life is the following: the only thing we can always expect when manipulating the living world is that there will be unexpected consequences. By definition, those consequences are rarely aligned with the initial goal of our intervention. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and our curren... See more
Understanding Living Systems
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People need to understand that all degrowth really is, is a switch in the goal of the economic system. We need to change the goal of the system from the accumulation of capital to the flourishing of all people, not just people in the global north, also people in the global south, and the flourishing of all life on this planet, because our economic ... See more
Ian Tucker • Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
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Today, we increasingly understand that climate change and other sustainability challenges are internal, relationship crises. They result from modern societies’ story of separation. This story assumes that we are all separate from each other, that some humans are superior to other humans, and that human beings are both separate and superior to the r
... See moreChristine Wamsler • What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis
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But many individuals like driving, flying and eating beef. They feel the climate movement wants to take away things they enjoy...
They do. There’s different kinds of pleasure in life, right? Like getting deeply involved in your community, or feeling like you’re involved in something deeply meaningful, like humanity getting on a better course and the... See more
They do. There’s different kinds of pleasure in life, right? Like getting deeply involved in your community, or feeling like you’re involved in something deeply meaningful, like humanity getting on a better course and the... See more
Ian Tucker • Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
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Since that study was written we’ve burned over 50% again the cumulative amount of fossil fuels. Which means the amount of fossil fuels we’ve burned is equivalent to if we set fire to all the plants and algae grown on Earth every year for over 21,000 years. No wonder it’s getting hot.
Spencer R. Scott • Oil Barons Own the Earth
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"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid." (Aldous Huxley)
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You can’t have healthy people on a sick planet.
Once you recognize and actually realize that humans are nature, that this whole planet is a lot of different, diverse things but also, at the same time, one big inextricably connected thing, it becomes very clear that all the current major crises that we are facing are also crises within ourselves.
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Once you recognize and actually realize that humans are nature, that this whole planet is a lot of different, diverse things but also, at the same time, one big inextricably connected thing, it becomes very clear that all the current major crises that we are facing are also crises within ourselves.
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Thomas Klaffke • Rehabilitating Humanity
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It’s clear that the most thorny problems facing humanity today—climate crisis, cybersecurity, income inequality to name a few—will not be solved by one corporation or one individual. These problems need to be addressed with the scale and efficiency of a corporation, without compromising on individual autonomy, creativity, and ownership. They requir... See more
Tina He • A New Genre of Work
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At the core of most of our cocoons are the concepts and frameworks that have been dictated by the sense that capitalism (in it’s more colloquial broader sense that includes deregulation, imperialism and globalization) is the only viable economic and political system. This has been termed a “monomyth” - a singular myth that like a monoculture planta
... See moreSpencer R. Scott • End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You
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