Sublime

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

For these activists, it was important to pressure multiple actors, including lawmakers, government agencies, universities, and private sector firms, to change research and design practices, adopt new approaches, and implement new standards of care.

In the aftermath of any terrorist act, our instinct is to try to make sense of the brutality by assigning a person’s or a group’s violent radicalization to one or two probable causes: religious extremism and economic disparity, for example.

"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course," and then continued,"Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, a

The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. The Paris climate agreement — the non-binding, unenforceable and already unheeded treaty signed on Earth Day in 2016 — hoped to restrict warming to two degrees. The odds

Some suggest that the system needs to change, that individual actions like stopping flying are pointless, as one hundred corporates emit 70% of all emissions.32 Others demand ideological purity on climate consciousness, arguing that unless someone lives a carbon-neutral life, they can’t have a say about what needs to change in the system. This dich

concurrently to reduce ocean acidification.

In the worst case scenario, runaway global warming of 6°C+ super-heats the planet, wiping out humanity and most complex life forms.