Climate Futures

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

Creighton

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

Pamela Swanigan noemamag.com

Helene’s floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially deadly landslides persists in the region, scientists say • Asheville Watchdog

PETER LEWIS avlwatchdog.org

Thumbnail of Helene’s floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially deadly landslides persists in the region, scientists say • Asheville Watchdog

Good summary of landslide danger and reasons for it in WNC

Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?

Jessica Wildfire • Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?

The entire story of a civilization, or a community, centers around energy: its availability; its production; the uses to which it is put. Whether need outstrips them all.

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

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

In Texas, a Crisis of Inaction Without Consequence

Colin Bogle texasobserver.org

Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current

reuters.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.