The Mars obsession: Are two planets better than one to ensure human survival?
Those who offer Mars as part of a “two-planet solution” for the long-term survival of the human race are only distracting us from facing our very real problems on Earth.
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Why the TMX Will Endlessly Spill Taxpayers’ Money
Now a project that the government swore would only cost $7.4 billion has soared to $21.4 billion. And it is not even half finished.
How much could restoring forests reduce India’s emissions?
India has made ambitious pledges to restore forests to tackle climate change, alongside many other countries. But what that goal looks like in practice is not yet well understood.
Why Words Matter in the Fight Against Climate Change
We shouldn’t be trying to bring on board the people who’re not already on board. Instead we should be trying to activate the vast majority of people who’re already concerned or even alarmed about the climate crisis but haven’t yet started exerting political pressure on their workplaces or on their government.
Becoming a Forest: Caring for Entangled Relationships
How do we change climate together, in ways that makes this Planet liveable for all creatures, in ways that (as Robin Wall Kimmerer puts it) all flourishing can be mutual?
Throwaway people or valued environmental service providers?
By collecting and separating reusable or recyclable materials of their own accord, unsalaried waste pickers relieve the growing burden of mismanaged municipal solid waste.
Eradicating ‘extreme poverty’ would raise global emissions by less than 1%
Lifting hundreds of millions of people out of “extreme poverty” – where they live on less than US$1.90 per day – would drive a global increase in emissions of less than 1%, according to new research.
We reconstructed Britain of millions of years ago to see what climate breakdown will involve
But what will the climate crisis mean for the relatively mild UK? To find out, we reconstructed the climate at a specific point in the distant past, an era when volcanoes had pumped about as much carbon into the atmosphere as exists today.
Platforming to oblivion: How academic institutions foster merchants of doubt
While debate and controversial ideas are important and can be stimulating, we argue that offering Lomborg an academic platform contributes to the empowerment of climate denialism and the celebration of misleading facts and pseudo-science.
On the lake: Navigating a sense of place
The outcome of the exercise of crafting a sense of place is not just for me, it’s also for the benefit of the larger ecosystem. Or maybe there is no distinction. Considering Gaian wholeness, what is the lake if not an extension of myself?
Ecology? Look it up! You’re still involved
We cannot solve climate change or other symptoms of overshoot — including global injustices and the lingering threat of more pandemics — without really understanding and feeling deeply the lessons of wilderness, of ecology.
Evolutionary Mismatch, Partisan Politics, and Climate Change: A Tragedy in Three Acts
It is apparent that our focus should not only be on solving climate change, but should also address other planetary boundaries, and perhaps even democratic renewal, but in every case, we need the means of transitioning from an unsatisfactory system to a better one that focuses on our strengths, and mitigates against our psychological shortcomings.
