Climate Futures

Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.

‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink

“I’ve been considering the response of humans to climate change through the lens of the classic five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Honestly, we’ve barely begun.”

https://mastodon.green/@christineburns/113413432846625603

Jeri Dansky (@jeridansky@sfba.social)

Seth Borenstein sfba.social

It’s Time To Give Up Hope For A Better Climate & Get Heroic | NOEMA

Pamela Swanigan noemamag.com

The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis

Lynn White Jr. explores the historical roots of humanity's ecological crisis, highlighting the impact of Christianity and technology on our relationship with nature, and calls for a rethinking of these assumptions.

uvm.edu

As Tad DeLay writes in Future of Denial, we are all, in a Freudian sense, repressing the reality of a climate changed future. It doesn’t bear thinking about, so we’d rather not. Reckoning with it leads to a daunting unravelling of the logic that structures our world.

Rebekah Diski • Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute

How many days will you spend outside in a climate changed world?

anthropocenemagazine.org

“Every part of our financial and legal system at this point is devoted, singularly devoted, to keeping the status quo in place,” Harvard Law School professor Susan Crawford said in the webinar. “It will be difficult for us to adapt.”

Mark Gongloff • A $1 Trillion Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Housing Market - Bloomberg

Rebecca Solnit/joy is a strategy on X: "They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." / X