Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
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.
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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If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton
Tim Wintontheguardian.com
In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening... See more
Albert Burneko • Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
Unsparing commentary on where we are, from the article “Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars”
“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
