“Don’t Look Up” (part 2) – What I learned
By Bart Anderson, Resilence.org
The climate movie Don’t Look Up has a lot to teach activists, in fact anyone concerned about our future.
Tag: climate change
Climate Mitigation: ’21 into ’22
By Bill Henderson, Counter Currents
Climate wise it’s clear that as we limp from ‘21 to ‘22 those who want to protect the economy from needed climate mitigation are still firmly in control.
“Don’t Look Up” (part 1) – climate movie is kryptonite to the super villains
By Bart Anderson, Resilence.org
You know a satirical movie has hit its target when the mainstream reviewers call it “shrill” and “overblown.”
A moving target: Hardening our infrastructure against climate change
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Hardening our infrastructure against the effects of climate change on our electrical grid, our drainage and sewer systems, and our roads and bridges seems like a no-brainer.
All of a sudden: Climate change tipping points appear with a vengeance
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
For decades policymakers and the public believed that climate change would arrive gradually and that therefore we had plenty of time to deal with it. Climate scientists knew better. The consequences of delaying action are now in the news every single day.
Climate Change and Resource Depletion. Which Way to Ruin is Faster?
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
What could bring down the industrial civilization? Would it be global warming (fire) or resource depletion (ice)? At present, it may well be that depletion is hitting us faster. But, in the long run, global warming may hit us much harder. Maybe the fall of our civilization will be Fire AND ice.
Climate change consequences: Too hot, too wet and out of time
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
We thought we had decades to avert climate catastrophe. But it's already here.
The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
But let’s assume there is indeed enough time, and that we suddenly get serious about planning. What should we do?
Climate change and the “law of acceleration”
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Acceleration is a common theme in contemporary culture and generally tinged with the connotation of "progress." But acceleration shows itself to be a two-edged sword when applied to the alarming trends in our climate.
Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Review
By David Crossley, Resilience.org
The message in this book is simple: There are hard physical limits to the growth of available energy to power our civilization and these will probably be seriously in effect by the end of the 21st century.
Internalizing Climate Risk
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
From ‘natural’ disasters causing property damage, to climate mitigation measures rendering fossil fuel assets unburnable, to potential impacts of climate change on agricultural production, energy, food, insurance, real estate, and other sectors, it’s clear that private sector companies and all kinds of investments stand to suffer significant losses as a consequence of climate change.
The ‘new normal’ has been postponed (and probably canceled)
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
There remains a hope that once we get past the economic and social effects of the pandemic, all of us will be able to return to something resembling normal life before the pandemic—even if it is a "new normal" marked by heightened vigilance and protection against infectious disease ... But the date for this recovery to a new normal seems to keep getting postponed.