Climate Antifragility
Only once we’ve given up on the belief that we must succeed can we truly hope that we succeed after all.
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The Colonial Roots of Present Crises
Looking around at the energy crisis, the drift to the extreme right and the mounting climate disasters that the world is facing, the common thread of colonial exploitation may not be obvious
From Crisis to Transformation
This primer seeks to explore why it is imperative to orient ourselves and our social movements towards a Just Transition and how we can consciously and deliberately move away from the dysfunctional and destructive systems that are leading us towards extinction.
Animals have evolved to avoid overexploiting their resources – can humans do the same?
The mechanism by which survival-of-the-fittest brings about prudence therefore cannot work any more. The analogy with nature has broken down. It can no longer support the belief that the pursuit of individual benefits will ultimately lead to balance in society and economics.
What Snails Can Teach Us About the Extinction Crisis
A new book about efforts to save endangered snails in Hawai‘i provides valuable insight into threats to global biodiversity.
Solving the Climate Crisis Requires Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Enrolling local tribal experts as science advisers, partners, and co-managers in addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, legacy pollutants, and other pernicious issues not only makes sense, but is the only way to effectively turn things around.
Is Climate Breakdown a White Swan?
So, gaze into the eyes of the White Swan; and act like you have never have before.
The Free Agent Beaver
A gentle, intentional and more precise reshaping of language around beavers, and nature as whole, could help reconnect us with the origin of our knowledge of interspecies living — recognizing we are not at the “top,” and that human supremacy is a myth.
Bad communication on climate has bad consequences. We must do better.
The future of communications on the climate crisis must focus on freeing all of us from the systems that drive us to dump costs onto others and nature.
Where there is guilt, there is a chance for justice and healing
I believe an aversion to feeling guilty has no place in a meaningful global climate movement. Because without any recognition of fault and how past injury shapes current power, there is little basis for moving towards either justice or healing.
Stories for a living future
We cannot avoid having to walk through the ruins of our present civilization. But we can walk together to a living future, where our well-being and the well-being of the Earth are not in conflict, but part of a shared journey. This we can do.
I need to watch things die from a distance.
If you consider yourself to be environmentally-conscious as well as privileged enough to have stepped foot on a commercial airliner (80% of humans never have), you may feel (as I do) an emerging sense of dismay about the state of aviation.
