The Inflation Reduction Act is a new lease on U.S. climate policy: Let’s not screw it up
It’s taken over 50 years for the nation’s policymakers to put together anything approximating an integrated energy and environment policy.
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Barred from the Climate Conversation
Without equal representation from the Global South, where these effects will be most severely felt, there is no hope that just solutions will be found and met.
Clam shells show how North Atlantic ‘tipped’ into Little Ice Age
To identify those components of the Earth system that might exhibit tipping behaviour in the future, we can look for abrupt changes in the past.
There’s no place for burnout in a burning world
Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.
My Country Pakistan Is Drowning
As Pakistan mourns the destruction and devastation caused by the recent extreme climatic events, the industrialized and post-industrialized countries of the global north responsible for these catastrophes need to be held accountable.
Action for Antarctica: Saving the World’s Last Great Wilderness
Antarctica is the world’s last great wilderness.
This is a place where we haven’t messed everything up yet. If we do the right things, we can avoid making the same kind of mistakes we’ve made everywhere else.
Karate-Do: The Official Sport of the Gaian Way
Following the way—whether karate-do or the Gaian Way—without energy will not sustain its power—whether its power to transform oneself, one’s community, or one’s culture, and especially will not sustain its power to transform humanity’s relationship with Gaia.
‘Climate Dystopia at Our Doorstep’: Tens of Millions Battle Catastrophic Flooding in Pakistan
With hundreds of thousands of people displaced, more than four million crops destroyed, and nearly a million homes demolished or severely damaged, Pakistani officials and rights campaigners on Monday called for a major international aid push….
Small-town citizens get creative in Black Hills uranium mine fight
A Missouri State University study identified the main citizen concerns voiced: health effects of radioactivity released by uranium, underground water contamination, land and environmental destruction due to mining, lack of Native American consultation, and cultural rights to water based on historic treaties.
The Authoritarian Fetish
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.
Why we should abandon the concept of the ‘climate refugee’
Rather than accept these terms at face value, we might instead ask ourselves: who does the idea of the climate migrant, or climate refugee, really serve?
From waterworks to wild water park in community hands
From a historic waterworks into a place for urban wild swimming, a community group in East London wants to buy up and rewild more than five hectares of concrete into a ‘brownfield rainforest’.
