Under a White Sky: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
In Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, examines the future world we are engineering.
Tag: climate change responses
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 1)
By Aaron Karp, Resilience.org
The trillion-dollar pandemic relief bills demonstrate the federal government's power to create money, upending the question that often stymies progressive policies: how will you pay for it? However, there are still limits to money creation that activists aiming to create a sustainable economy should consider.
Remembering The Weather of the Future
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
But my feeling is that we do need to hear more declarative statements like “Sell the beach house now!” from science and modeling.
Why make time to feel when there is a world to save?
By Malika Virah-Sawmy, Jem Bendell blog
Because there will be no saving of worlds if we are not feeling them first. And it is by loving all life, no matter what, that a more beautiful world already exists.
Why 2021 is humanity’s make-or-break moment on climate breakdown
By Laurie Macfarlane, Open Democracy
Last year will be remembered for many things, and let’s be honest: most of them will be bad. But amidst the hardship and suffering, there is a positive story to be told.
If Citizens Assemblies are the way forward, why is XR no longer endorsing the Scottish Governments Climate Citizens Assembly?
By Justin Kenrick, Bella Caledonia
If the Government cannot create a genuine Assembly process, do we need to find the resources for civil society to do so? Should this involve inviting the Government to become one stakeholder in a process that is designed to challenge us all to make a path ahead that can be an example for other countries to follow?
Net-zero emissions by 2050: Leadership or climate colonialism?
By Ian Dunlop, David Spratt, Climate Code Red
In Lewis Carroll's words: "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." But we do know: it is net-zero emissions by 2030, not 2050.
The Economic Superorganism: Excerpt
By Carey W. King, Resilience.org
In the context of the energy and economic narratives, who needs more willpower? Do our political leaders need “political will” to constrain the choices for both public and private energy company investments?
Review: The Disappearing Shore by Roberta Park
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
For a book that can be breezed through in a couple of hours, this pseudonymously written novella manages to plumb the modern-day human dilemma with surprising depth and emotion.
If democracy looks doomed, Extinction Rebellion may have an answer
By John Harris, The Guardian blog
At the heart of a new climate emergency bill lies a simple idea to cut through Westminster groupthink: a citizens’ assembly.
How to Bring About Catastrophic Success in the Face of Climate Change
By Breanna Draxler, YES! magazine
The collective project of remaking the world needs to be approached with care for—and active consent from—everyone, because everyone is working together on a project that will be better than anything that currently exists.
How the Twin Disasters of Climate Change and Covid-19 could Transform our Cities
By Irena Bauman, The Guardian blog
It’s often been said that we’re living through an unprecedented moment. But in city centres, the coronavirus crisis has merely accelerated trends that have been unfolding for some time.