Transformation By Design Or Disaster, What’s It Going To Be?
An often neglected human superpower means our destiny is still in our hands To be a superhero, you need superpowers like laser beams for eyes, the ability to walk through walls, the…
COP Meetings Will Never Achieve Anything Without Questioning Economic Growth
Increasing greenhouse gas emissions are intertwined with economic growth The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was established in 1994 with the goal of preventing “dangerous” human interference with the…
Why Countries And Borders Are Hampering Efforts to Solve The Climate Crisis
Nation-states aren’t set up to deal with global problems As obvious as it sounds, the climate doesn’t have borders. This means that when greenhouse gases are emitted, they don’t just magically float…
Why Has The Environmental Movement Failed To Go Mainstream?
Various obstacles work against the environmental movement, but once one falls, they all will Extinction Rebellion (XR) launched on 31 October 2018 with its ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ outside the Houses of Parliament…
Mega Droughts, Food Shortages, and War — the Climate Crisis is Going to Destroy the Free Market
Scarcity will drive prices up, leading to market failures, social instability and the risk of war Since Putin’s regime went rogue, fears of scarcity have led to wholesale gas prices soaring. And…
A Nobel Prize Winning Economist Argues 4°C of Global Warming is Optimal. Is He Right?
Viewing the climate crisis as merely ‘costs’ and ‘benefits’ is part of the reason why there is a climate crisis Upon accepting his Nobel Prize in 2018, the economist William Nordhaus argued…