Climate Crisis

One of the most affecting myths of clock time is that we all experience time at the same steady pace. We don’t. “The future is already here,” the science-fiction author William Gibson famously said in 2003, “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” And framing the climate crisis as a ticking clock with only a certain amount of time “to avoid disaste
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Understanding Living Systems
Analyzing the language we use to describe climate change is particularly urgent, according to Dr. Stibbe, as our words directly influence how we tackle it. For example, the neutral-sounding term “anthropogenic climate change” collapses human responsibility for the climate crisis into a neat, innocuous noun. “There’s no actual agents doing anything,
... See moreDeep Ecology • Why We Need New Words for Nature
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’
Zehn Tage nach Jahresbeginn hat das reichste Prozent der Weltbevölkerung nach Darstellung von Oxfam seinen fairen Anteil an e... See more
Oxfam: Superreiche haben ihr CO2-Budget für 2025 bereits verbraucht
Nora Bateson • Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training.
"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)
"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
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