Climate Futures

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

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?

If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton

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

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

Pamela Swanigan noemamag.com

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels

James R. Riordon phys.org

“Hope clouds observation.” — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel

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

Rebecca Solnit/joy is a strategy • Tweet

janhoglund (@janhoglund@mastodon.nu)

Sarah Kendzior mastodon.nu