Pandora’s Box: Anthropogenic Aerosols and Climate Change
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
If the warming effect of anthropogenic aerosols is predominant, this must also be factored into decarbonisation models. It adds another component of warming to an already dangerously overheating system.
Ecomodernism On Its Own Terms
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
This article is an attempt to seriously engage with socialist ecomodernism in a way the interview failed to do with degrowth: on its own terms.
Pandora’s Box: Emerging Threats to Climate Stability
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium.com
If the research is correct and we did suffer a total breakdown of the microlayer, even massive carbon emissions mitigation would do little to staunch the earth's climate unraveling.
What We’ve Won So Far
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
But I want protestors to avoid the fatalism I saw in London, and to remember that protest and disruption do work, no matter how little or how much. The actions of climate protests have instigated real action before, and they will, and must, do so again.
A Review of ‘The Age of Low Tech’ by Philippe Bihouix
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
The Age Low Tech is a funny, informal, practical, angry, and subtly deep book. Released in 2014, its discussion of energy crisis and supply chain fragility feel prescient to 2022.
GDP is (almost) everything, and that’s the problem
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
The question asked by serious political economy now is not ‘how do we perpetuate growth’, but rather, if it will be degrowth by design, or by disaster.
The Authoritarian Fetish
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian; and suggests instead that centralisation and political dominion will weaken as we leave the stable Holocene era, potentially — but by no means necessarily — opening the possibility for more reciprocal models of political organisation.
Ecological Economics: An Introduction
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
Ecological Economics is the informed management of resources and socio-environmental interactions to satisfy objective needs and subjective desires in a process that does not destroy the basis of their provision.