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“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace fearl
... See moreOpinion | The City Looks Different When You’re Older
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A key environmental problem is that current systems of housing and transport are unsustainable. In American suburbia, houses are large and costly to build. They are energy inefficient and cannot be kept cool without air conditioning. They have large lawns, often with ecologically destructive landscaping. Because of the distances and the land-use pa
... See moreJuliet Schor • A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century (Open Media Series)
This intergenerational problem is so acute that it explicitly pervades all economic decision-making. Indeed, there will be many times when it’s morally acceptable to help people today at the expense of those tomorrow. Take the example of air conditioners in Europe: energy use increases in response to higher temperatures, which can drive yet more em
... See morePaul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
restrict access to their roads by fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. They can also establish green building policies, electrify their vehicle fleets, and set procurement guidelines and performance standards for municipally owned buildings.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“Our strategy must change,” Heinberg says, “from crisis prevention to crisis management.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Its relentless trajectory: To bring it on, all we have to do is, um, nothing. Its overwhelming complexity: To fix it, not only do we have to do something, but, as Naomi Klein has said, we pretty much have to “change everything” about how our economy and society operates. Its asymmetries of power: Those of us most historically responsible for causin
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