Climate change is the test: are we just animals consuming resources until we expire, or are our higher minds exceptional enough to overcome our ecological overshoot?
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Overshoot, Resilience, and Violence
Overshoot, resilience, and violence are part of the conversation about climate change. How do they factor into the solution?
David Barash And The Value Of A Good Argument
There is little value in a good argument regarding climate change. Even a complete explanation isn’t enough to convince people to give up what must be given up.
The Hidden Threat of Polycrisis
The greatest danger from climate change is the social stress. Dr. Daniel Hoyer studies Polycrisis: how multiple crises converge to create something worse.
Fairy Tales Of Eternal Economic Growth
In her speech to the UN General Assembly, Greta Thunberg castigated world leaders for fixating on money and “fairy tales of eternal economic growth.” Is it possible?
Why Didn’t We See This Coming? Part 2
Our stable, profitable lifestyle is unsustainable. Changing it is scary. But the risks of failing to do it are certain and worse.
Why Didn’t We See This Coming? Part 1
The first published experiments confirming that CO2 can trap heat in the atmosphere were conducted in 1856 by Eunice Foote. So why the mad scramble now?
An interview with Joe Robertson
New ways of looking at climate solutions and how to build a sustainable economic system against a backdrop of serious impending deadlines.
An Interview with Dr. Jake Berv
Dr. Berv is an evolutionary biologist, and a Schmidt AI In Science post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. He has many ideas, some of which I had the privilege of discussing with him in an interview I just posted here.
An Interview with Dr. Amelia Weiss
One frustrating thing about our failure to address and solve climate change is how politicized science has become. We discuss that and more in this interview.
The Pursuit of Happiness
In 1991, Procol Harem released “The Pursuit of Happiness.” It resonates eerily with the crossroads climate change has brought us to thirty years later.
The Problem With Science
Without quality facts, democracy can’t function. Without faith in science, humans are at the mercy of authorities who only tell them what they want to hear.
The Big Picture: Life In The Troposphere
Here are two thought experiments to put our thin blanket of atmosphere and the vastness of space in perspective.
The Cage Match Of Ideas
Each of us has a responsibility to hold our opinions and beliefs up to the light and force them to defend themselves in the cage match of ideas.
Slavish Genes and Polarization
Our very nature, the competitive force that allowed us to survive a hostile world, now unavoidably leads us to consume straight to our own oblivion.