Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute

If industry prevails and we stick with a business-as-usual scenario — and pretty much all data indicates this is what we are doing — we’ll blow through our carbon budget in less than seven years.9 Global temperature rise will continue on its trajectory of 3°C10 increase or worse by the end of the century, and, in environmentalist Bill McKibben’s wo

Even after eight years of horrible conditions — and powerful evidence that the Dust Bowl was a human-created disaster (the result of humans plowing up arid plains and grasslands not suited to agriculture) — many persisted in their belief that it was just God’s will, and what they needed to do was behave better.11 Others continued with a ghoulish bo

For those on the left, a primary source of foreboding is climate change, which makes speculation about what the world will look like decades hence so terrifying that it’s often easier not to think about it at all

read — and re-read — Scranton’s op-ed the year it was published. It forced my first deep reckoning with the reality that we were not going to be able to “prevent” climate catastrophe, or “undoom” our civilization. It’s taken me years to accept it. In fact, I’m still trying to, because accepting it requires me to murder my hopes, or at least those h