Climate Crisis
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
"Every day, people are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all [now nearly twice] the plant matter that grows on land and in the oceans over the course of a whole year," ecologist Jeff Dukes explained.
In another calculation, Dukes determined that "the amount of plants that went into the fossil fuels we burned since the Industrial Rev
... See moreSpencer R. Scott • Oil Barons Own the Earth
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a dystopian... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
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
The thing we’ve got to do to avoid hitting the iceberg is to end the fossil fuel industry as quickly as we can. The problem with not protecting the interest of the worki... See more
Ian Tucker • Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
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

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
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