climate crisis
Don't ditch democracy to save the planet. Make it better
Before you envy China for their recent climate seriousness, consider the advantages of democratic decision making.
How movies get our future wrong—and right
There's a lot we can't know about the future. But films should at least include the things we know for sure.
The emptying of Florida
Many Floridians currently fleeing Hurricane Milton are unlikely to return. It may be the first big step in the predicted near-emptying of the climate-exposed peninsula.
For a future worth living in, we need one fundamental shift
Every aspect of life in the future will take place in the jaws of a climate emergency.
The coming cleanup era
It's nice to imagine building a big, shiny future. But there's some un-sexy work to do first.
Solarpunk humanism: How we dream bigger than despair
Solarpunk offers a potent narrative space for imagining secular worlds to come, and how to get there.
You think weather forecasting is bad now? Welcome to 2070
It's not just the size of the storms that future generations will deal with. It's the terrifying unpredictability.
The climate crisis is not just a future problem. It's here now
Disaster specialist: 'We can't continue to approach disaster preparedness with resources and thinking from a world that had more time'
Go easy on the weatherfolks. It's chaos out there
Weather forecasts are tangible, daily predictions of the future. But it's damn near impossible to get it right—and that's about to get much worse.
We’ve burned past +1°C. Did a 2008 climate prediction get it right?
Sixteen years ago, a documentary predicted how a warming Earth would look at each of six temperature benchmarks. Now we've passed the first.
How is climate anxiety impacting young people?
A landmark survey suggests that climate anxiety—a chronic fear of environmental doom—is taking an outsized psychological toll on the young.
How do we talk about impending doom so that people will listen?
Books like ‘The Ministry for the Future’ offer a useful vocabulary for hashing out solutions to our overheating world.