Austin Frerick

Designing Climate Solutions – a Big-Picture View that Doesn’t Skimp on Details

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Let us pause for a moment of thanks to the policy wonks, who work within the limitations of whatever is currently politically permissible and take important steps forward in their branches of bureaucracy. Let us also give thanks to those who cannot work within those limitations, and who are determined to transform what is and is not politically permissible.

全局观

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当今，人类面临着许多问题。气候变化、经济不平等加剧、生物多样性瓦解、政局两级分化，以及全球债务泡沫等，都只是我们担忧的一小部分问题。这其中任何一项趋势的持续都会让我们的文明难以为继。而这些问题的蔓延表明我们正在走向某种历史性的发展断点。

Local Communities Taking on Big Oil

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These communities—South Deering, Pilsen, and Little Village—all keep fighting back. The support of groups like the Sierra Club and Pilsen Alliance, standing in solidarity with them, makes them even stronger. As Cheryl Johnson said to me, it is important to “follow what you believe is wrong to try and make it right.” And that’s just what these communities are doing.

Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat

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I’m with you when you say that climate change is the most important issue facing humankind. I’ll even go so far as to say it’s the most important one ever. But, when I hear folks say—and I have heard it—that the environmental movement is the first in history to stare down an existential threat, I have to get off the train.

Food from the Radical Center: Excerpt

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While the subject of this story is what we may call biocultural, eco-culinary, or reciprocal restoration, it is quite often enabled through a social process that has been called either community-based restoration, collaborative conservation, or cooperative collaboration.

The Worst Reason to Oppose the Green New Deal

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I would even venture that climate change is becoming one of the topics most talked about—or like religion and politics not to be talked about—around dinner tables. I credit the rising tide of youth activism for this rather sudden reversal of fortune.