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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

She believed the only thing capable of saving humans as a species would be a civic gene—one that caused humans to act not just in their own self-interest but also in the interests of the generations to follow. Evolution hadn’t solved that because few species had ever been in a position to destroy their entire ecosystem before. It was usually a volc

Daniel Suarez • Influx

Freeman Dyson

Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

We are entering an age of increasingly unpredictable climatological change. We are entering an age when we must remember that the most important ideas may not belong to human beings, but to bacteria and insects and entire geographies.

A Generous Uncertainty

“We live on a planet that has become the repository for the products, emissions and wastes of modern industry.” Joe Thornton

Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong

—Lester Brown

Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

This distinction was brought home to me by collapse theorist, sci-fi novelist, and, former Archdruid of North America, John Michael Greer.20 “A controlled, creative transition to sustainability might have been possible,” Greer argues, “if the promising beginnings of the 1970s had been followed up in the ’80s and ’90s.” But our politicians and CEOs