Climate Futures

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

In Texas, a Crisis of Inaction Without Consequence

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

Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?

Jessica Wildfire • Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?

This Scientist Has a Risky Plan to Cool Earth. There’s Growing Interest.

David Gelles nytimes.com

Helene’s floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially deadly landslides persists in the region, scientists say • Asheville Watchdog

PETER LEWIS avlwatchdog.org

Thumbnail of Helene’s floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially deadly landslides persists in the region, scientists say • Asheville Watchdog

Good summary of landslide danger and reasons for it in WNC

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

Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop 'down in Africa'

Max Siedentopf bbc.com

Jeri Dansky (@jeridansky@sfba.social)

Seth Borenstein sfba.social

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? | Agriculture | The Guardian