Climate Futures

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

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

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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars

defector.com defector.com

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.

“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

Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop 'down in Africa'

Max Siedentopf bbc.com

In Texas, a Crisis of Inaction Without Consequence

Colin Bogle texasobserver.org

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?

It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more

Bill McKibben • Silent Solar

From Bill McKibben’s substack.

‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation

Jonathan Watts theguardian.com