Tag: climate crisis

As the climate crisis worsens, the calls for more aggressive action grow louder. 2021 saw more business as usual, industry obfuscation and delay, but also some reasons for optimism.

Global orders and catastrophic change...

“Global inequalities seem to be about as great today as they were at the peak of western imperialism in the early 20th century.”

A new study hopes to inspire water managers — and the rest of us — to begin planning for how climate change will dramatically reduce snowpack.

Oil and gas exports from the Gulf Coast have surged by nearly 600 percent, and fossil fuel production in the Permian Basin has grown by 135 percent.

Climate change is caused by people acting in groups, after all, and sociology is the study of people acting in groups.

A year that began hopefully is ending grimly. Western political elites, unable (and perhaps unwilling) to turn a deadly pandemic and climate crisis into a life-preserving opportunity, have only themselves to blame.

“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we talk about women, art, climate, and guinea pigs.

Meanwhile, proven biological solutions with multiple benefits have received far less attention.

We all think that climate change is somebody else's problem. We have to be persuaded otherwise.