Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
Report: Appalachia Could Be a Haven for Climate Change Migrants
Janie Ekere • Report: Appalachia Could Be a Haven for Climate Change Migrants
How many days will you spend outside in a climate changed world?
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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?
“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.”
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.
“Hope clouds observation.” — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel
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.