Protect the Flame

By Otto Scharmer, Medium

It’s these fields of deepened connection — of radical shared presence — that can support the healing and can function as the soil and seed for a new civilization to emerge.

The Authoritarian Fetish

By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium

This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian; and suggests instead that centralisation and political dominion will weaken as we leave the stable Holocene era, potentially — but by no means necessarily — opening the possibility for more reciprocal models of political organisation.

Gaians as (Civilization’s) Death Doulas and Birth Midwives

By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism

But I think ultimately, I’m hoping/working toward encouraging Gaians to play an active role in serving as death doulas for our current civilization and as midwives for the next one to come.

Plunging Into the Polycrisis

By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism

The more I listened to participants, though, the more I realized perhaps most accurate word is “embrace”, for is it really possible to manage this polycrisis?

The Great Transition

By John McLeod, Esperanza Project

As we continue to poke and demand a systematic shift to environmental justice and ecological restoration, let us be vigilant in recognizing the emerging local projects and new institutions that stir our gratitude and provide a part of the roadmap to a new world.

What the IPCC report should have told us

By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul

The problem with the recent IPCC report is that it is still talking about ‘average’ changes over the earth, discussing what might happen decades from now as a result of increased rate of change. Even if the message is labeled “code red” or urgent, it is still understating what is already happening.

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.

Overproduction of Elites and Political Upheaval, or… the Story of Rich People Doing Stupid Things (Episode 43 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org

Society is producing too many elite people, and their decisions are causing extreme inequality, which is one of the key components of today’s sustainability crisis.

Why Worry About Collapse?

By Tom Murphy, Do the Math

For the purposes of this post, we can think of collapse as a drastic and probably chaotic reduction in energy and resource use per person, the result looking primitive by today’s standards.

What roles for markets and for the state when climate risk is existential?

By David Spratt, Climate Code Red

The climate policymaking orthodoxy is that markets can efficiently price and mitigate climate risks, but this blog argues that when risks are existential — that is, a permanent and drastic curtailing of human civilisation’s future development — then the damages are beyond calculation.

Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point?

By Juan Bordera Romá, Resilience.org

There are many examples of Tipping points (TP). Although tipping points and points of no return are the buzzwords of our times, we should probably be using them more than we are.

To What End?

By Tom Murphy, Do the Math

Humans have acquired the power to radically change the world. Great power should ideally be wielded only by those capable of great responsibility.