climate crisis

Dr. Eve Makoff
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Santa Ana and the fires to come

The seasonal high winds that once seemed a romantic part of living in Los Angeles now stir an annual sense of doom.

M L Clark
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What degrowth is, and why it matters

Against cultures of planned obsolescence.

Dale McGowan
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The unforgiven generations

We will be remembered for nothing else.

Adam Lee
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Weather whiplash: How the future will have to design for resilience

Climate change isn't headed for an extreme. It's headed for every extreme.

Dale McGowan
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Hyperreal: The next-level escape from the human condition

Our species-long efforts to escape reality are headed to an unreal place.

Dale McGowan
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The stupid and necessary climate pill

We're not going to stop feeding the atmosphere carbs. So the stupid pill it is.

Tom Krattenmaker
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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.

Dale McGowan
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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.

Dale McGowan
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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.

Tom Krattenmaker
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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.

Adam Lee
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The coming cleanup era

It's nice to imagine building a big, shiny future. But there's some un-sexy work to do first.

M L Clark
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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.