Yana S.

A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.

"We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation, and suffering," Harvard climate expert John Holden once said. "We're going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be." That was in 2007. The tension between those three... See more

1%

Since the 1990s the richest 1 % have burned through

more than twice as much carbon

as the bottom half of humanity

As a reminder, we apply global, systems thinking, and justice lenses to our examination of all these sectors.

His department calculated the opportunity cost of forgoing a cow at $64 a year, so this was the money it offered for protecting or restoring a hectare of forest. He began by reaching out to small farmers and their representatives, in those regions where people were most sympathetic to the idea. The smallest landholders were offered grants, slightly... See more

Steel, cement, plastics, and fertilizers dominate GHG emissions because we make them in immense quantities globally.

“Perception gaps can have real consequences – they could mean that climate policies are not as ambitious as the public sentiment,” said McLoughlin.

This class may come across as critical at times, but we prefer to think of our approach as cautionary . When you approach these topics with global, systems, and justice lenses, you begin to see why they may be both necessary and important —and also risky and fundamentally insufficient. And if you think that sounds contradictory, it is.

Indeed, if... See more

The simple answer is because organizations have focused on making humans more sustainable and not on making sustainability more human.