Sublime

I take to heart Tim Garrett’s excellent work,7 indicating that only the collapse of industrial civilization will prevent runaway climate change. And there are many, many other good reasons to terminate this set of living arrangements. According to a United Nations report from August 2010, we’re driving to extinction 150 to 200 species every day. Th

Darren Walker,

David Keith, a professor of applied physics at Harvard, has been described as “perhaps the foremost proponent of geoengineering,” a characterization that he bristles at. “I’m a proponent of reality,” he wrote in a letter to the editor of The New York Times in 2015. Keith founded the university’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program in 2017, and he

In 2019, a cross-sector team of scholars, activists, and system-designers met to explore strategies for “Navigating the Great Unraveling.”11 They projected out best- and worst-case scenarios for the year 2040 across four key drivers: available energy, degree of climate change, level of economic activity, and amount of accessible freshwater. For cli

scenarios, which we named Gray, Green, and Gaia. We crafted them as “news feeds from the future,” and included a guiding strategy document. Andrew: OK, let’s take it from the top. Gray? Gopal: Gray is more or less business as usual extrapolated out. It’s the mostly collapsitarian view of how the social and ecological implications of climate will pl

proper optimal mitigation paths (solution C)

“Our strategy must change,” Heinberg says, “from crisis prevention to crisis management.”

AI's Role in Climate Action