How to Reverse a Slow-Motion Apocalypse
Apocalyptic climate change is upon us. For shorthand, let’s call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.
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“We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis
We turn now to a pair of climate scientists who are calling for what some may view as a shocking solution to the climate crisis: a rethinking of the economic order in the United States and other industrialized nations.
How Palm Oil in Everything From Food to Fuel Is Killing Orangutans and Exacerbating Climate Change
Palm oil is now one of the leading causes of rainforest destruction worldwide, and the single biggest threat driving orangutans toward extinction; the best estimates place their population at just 60,600, and it’s shrinking quickly
Warsaw: En Plein Air
Work is being done to address climate change, of that I am sure. But the authentic work is happening in our villages and towns and cities and municipalities. It’s not making headlines.
Divest and Invest
At the Universtiy of Michigan we are readying our campaign to become more inclusive and strategic.
Surviving Climate Change: Is a Green Energy Revolution on the Global Agenda?
A week after the most powerful “super typhoon” ever recorded pummeled the Philippines…and three weeks after the northern Chinese city of Harbin suffered a devastating “airpocalypse,"…government leaders beware!
Warsaw: Global Landscape Forum Launches Alongside COP19
As climate talks continued at COP19 and climate activists took to the streets of Warsaw to demand an end to business as usual, the first Global Landscapes Forum debuted at the University of Warsaw Saturday, launching a two day conference to promote a novel holistic approach to addressing climate change while meeting the need to sustainably feed 9 billion people by 2050.
The Climate-PR Puzzle
If we hope to avert climate apocalypse in the decades ahead, we must make fundamental changes to industrial society.
Social Inertia in the face of Climate Change
Why is it that human civilization has been unable to take the steps required to forestall the devastating consequences of climate change, which may even include societal collapse, when faced with a scientific consensus that it is a very real phenomenon and requires urgent action?
Notes From a Born-Again Soil Worshiper
In modernity, we value progress and individualism, which are part of a constellation of values that also includes mobility, acquisition, and change. We are suspicious of social ties that may bind…
Deep thought – headlines
•’Sleepwalking to Extinction’: Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth •The story of how greens became energy enemy number one •Collapsing Consciously
Loss and Damage @Warsaw
Deborah Phelan reports from the COP 19 climate talks in Warsaw.
