Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate
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Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate
To help us find our bearings, we’re going to look at several frameworks, including Richard Heinberg’s “Four Ways to Decline,” David Fleming’s Surviving the Future, Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Dmitry Orlov’s Five Stages of Collapse, John Michael Greer’s Long Descent, as well as the broad notion that climate change is an unsolvable “super-wicked prob
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Introduction: Imagining Positive Climate Futures
To help us find our bearings, we’re going to look at several frameworks, including Richard Heinberg’s “Four Ways to Decline,” David Fleming’s Surviving the Future, Peter Frase’s Four Futures, Dmitry Orlov’s Five Stages of Collapse, John Michael Greer’s Long Descent, as well as the broad notion that climate change is an unsolvable “super-wicked prob
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