Climate Holism vs. Climate Reductionism

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Climate change may be the biggest threat facing humanity, but the way we’re currently going about fighting it just ensures that, even if we prevail, another threat will follow, and another, and another.

Is the world living or dead?

By Christy Rodgers, Dark Mountain Project

The model of nature accepted by the majority of contemporary scientists is that of a highly complex machine, something that – once certain unchanging laws and basic parts are identified – can essentially be manipulated at our will.