Sublime

The facts are brutal. To stay under 1.5°C, the global economy can burn only a fixed amount more carbon, which at time of publication, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change estimated at approximately 275 gigatons and

Any news I might bring has already been brought. Thousands of scientific papers. Millions of newspaper column inches. Anyone who cares to pay attention already knows that we’ve broken Nature, and the world we know will soon end. This park, for one, is done for. This city I love, home to almost nine million, and one of humankind’s most extraordinary

Cities like these can also allow the building of clean energy projects on city land.

insights I’ve gained from the commission’s work—informed by dozens of experts in science, public policy, industry, and other areas—to give you a sense of what else it’s going to take to adapt

Estimates vary, but even the low end of the spectrum suggests that a global switch to regenerative land husbandry would sequester our total annual emissions back underground.32 Which means we could reverse the trends of global warming simply by changing the way we farm and ranch.

Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.