Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
Lorenzo Tondotheguardian.com
‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
Jonathan Wattstheguardian.com
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
“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.”
If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton
Tim Wintontheguardian.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.