Our Actions Create the Future: A Response to Jem Bendell
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog
I believe that hope has a crucial role in healing, and in driving our engagement in effecting the deep transformation we need.
Tag: climate change responses
Responding to Green Positivity Critiques of Deep Adaptation
By Jem Bendell, Jem Bendell blog
Since my paper on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos came out in July 2018 and “went viral,” there have been some criticisms of the concept and what people think it implies.
Standing in the Fire With Young Climate Activists
By Barbara Cecil, TruthOut
A global student uprising is underway, with youth worldwide demanding that adults face the climate crisis head on. They need a strong foundation in themselves and adult partnership for the challenges ahead.
Deep Solidarity
By Shaun Chamberlin, DarkOptimism
Reading Jeremy Lent’s excellent post What Will You Say To Your Grandchildren? and seeing it so passionately take issue with Jem Bendell’s “dangerously flawed” calls for Deep Adaptation, I just felt deep solidarity with both.
The Natural World can Help Save us from Climate Catastrophe
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
We don’t want natural climate solutions to be used as a substitute for the rapid and comprehensive decarbonisation of our economies. The science tells us both are needed: the age of carbon offsets is over.
The Promise of the Green New Deal
By John de Graaf, Front Porch Republic
In my view, the most glaring omission in the GND is its lack of any challenge to consumerism and our current obsession with economic growth.
A Modest Suggestion for the World’s Climate Strikers
By Paul Arbair, Paul Arbair blog
Here is how: in addition to your “climate strike”, or as a substitute to it if or when you get frustrated of being denied the kind of change you want, embark with all the strength and enthusiasm of your youth on an “energy diet”. A big, fat, relentless and endless energy diet. Not only on Fridays, but every single day of the week, 365 days per year, for the rest of your life.
The Green New Deal: A Strategy for a More Equal United States
By Jeremy Brecher, Inequality.org
The Green New Deal resolution outlines a vision of what we need to do to address the dual crises of climate change and runaway inequality. What policies and programs could help us realize that vision?
Orangutans, Santa Suits, and Airplanes on Fire (Episode 1 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Welcome to Crazy Town, where most of the inhabitants just want you to keep contributing to an economy already in overshoot, keep distracting yourself from the most important stories, and (most of all) keep your mouth shut.
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is Being Built
By Zoya Teirstein, Grist
Drummer realized the Green New Deal was the “best tangible, concrete expression of the kind of economics and politics that we were fighting for and trying to develop.”