Introduction: Imagining Positive Climate Futures
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Introduction: Imagining Positive Climate Futures
In 2019, a cross-sector team of scholars, activists, and system-designers met to explore strategies for “Navigating the Great Unraveling.”11 They projected out best- and worst-case scenarios for the year 2040 across four key drivers: available energy, degree of climate change, level of economic activity, and amount of accessible freshwater. For cli
... See moreClimate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
... See moreClimate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
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