Sublime

If we don’t fund a rapid carbon drawdown, if we don’t take the immense amount of capital that flows around the world looking for the highest rate of return and redirect it into decarbonizing work, civilization could crash.

Frase argues that we are facing a paradoxical crisis of both scarcity (ecological catastrophe) and abundance (AI & automation) at the very same time. Under these twin pressures, he argues, capitalism is going to end. The question is what will replace it. On intersecting axes of scarcity/ abundance and hierarchy/equality, he maps out a 2 × 2 grid of

The Planetary Boundaries report released by the Stockholm Resilience Centre suggested there were nine boundaries we cannot cross and maintain a sustainable economy. They are climate change, stratospheric ozone, land use change, freshwater use, biological diversity, ocean acidification, nitrogen and

And it wasn’t just in Miami where flimsy construction proved to be dangerous. The 1926 hurricane pushed water through a poorly built earthen dike that held in Lake Okeechobee in the central part of the state, flooding the farmlands below the lake and killing four hundred people. Two years later, another hurricane hit, taking out an even bigger part

At some think tank somewhere, guys with pocket protectors and knotted brows are asking their computer models questions like: “If global carbon emissions peak by 2030 and sea-level rise is 1.6 meters by 2050, how many people along the Eastern Seaboard are likely to drown in storm surges, and what will the effect be on national GDP to relocate the

As the planet slowly cooks, people will do what they have done for thousands of years in response to changes in their environment: they will move.

“When we have a fact-based worldview, we can see that the world is not as bad as it seems—and we can see what we have to do to keep making it better.” When we have a fact-based view of climate