Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
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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“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated
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Elizabeth Kolbert • What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
“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.
Rebekah Diski • Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute
Home Sales Sink Across Florida Amid Hurricane Recovery, Surging HOA and Insurance Costs
Lily Katzredfin.com
But the big uncertainty that determines whether 2100 is a happy place or a less happy place is our decisions on what we do with emissions. And they dwarf the uncertainties that we’re talking about here. We’re talking 0.1, 0.2 degrees. Well, the difference emissions make is 1 degree, 2 degrees, 3 degrees. So it’s an order of magnitude larger. And... See more
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‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
Jonathan Wattstheguardian.com