I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

And how will we deal with unfolding climate change? There is now a widespread consensus that we need to do something to prevent many highly undesirable consequences, but what kind of action, what sort of behavioral transformation would work best? For those who ignore the energetic and material imperatives of our world, those who prefer mantras of g

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All is not lost. There is in fact a way to “save the world.” I put it in quotes, because ultimately the choice we face is not about our survival, it is about what kind of world we choose to live in. One vibrant with life? Or a gigantic strip mine / waste dump / parking lot? So let us say instead, there is a way to regenerate a world vibrant with li

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In short, things aren’t just changing. They’re changing very, very fast, and they’re not going to slow down. This is all the more reason why your Square Four, the life you put together in the outside world, must accommodate the reality of change. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be upset by things like aging, death, betrayal, decay, and the emergenc

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To give up hope, by contrast, is to reinhabit the power that you actually have. At that point, Jensen goes on, ‘we no longer have to “hope” at all. We simply do the work. We make sure salmon survive. We make sure prairie dogs survive. We make sure grizzlies survive … When we stop hoping that the awful situation we’re in will somehow resolve itself,

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