Prepare for a ‘Gray Swan’ Climate

This distinction was brought home to me by collapse theorist, sci-fi novelist, and, former Archdruid of North America, John Michael Greer.20 “A controlled, creative transition to sustainability might have been possible,” Greer argues, “if the promising beginnings of the 1970s had been followed up in the ’80s and ’90s.” But our politicians and CEOs

All of them. Our future is going to be a contest between Gray, Green, and Gaia, between those three paradigms, those three sets of forces. Which is exactly what we’re experiencing today. The Right vs. Left, climate-is-a-hoax vs. climate-is-real argument, which unfortunately still absorbs so much of our energy, is an irrelevant conversation to what

Decades from now, the United States will be wildly different, even unrecognizable. Some of the most dramatic changes will occur in regions few thought were especially vulnerable to climate change at all.