Climate Futures

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

Creighton

This Scientist Has a Risky Plan to Cool Earth. There’s Growing Interest.

David Gelles nytimes.com

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

Lorenzo Tondo theguardian.com

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

anthropocenemagazine.org

In Texas, a Crisis of Inaction Without Consequence

Colin Bogle texasobserver.org

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

Pamela Swanigan noemamag.com

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? | Agriculture | The Guardian

Tess McClure • The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures? - Yale E360

Elizabeth Kolbert • What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?

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

In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening... See more

Albert Burneko • Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars

Unsparing commentary on where we are, from the article “Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars”