Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
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”
If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton
Tim Wintontheguardian.com
Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?
Jessica Wildfire • Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?
It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more
Bill McKibben • Silent Solar
From Bill McKibben’s substack.
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
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.