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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

There are still a few regions with very high fertility rates—notably in sub-Saharan Africa—and as a result, living standards are not yet rising at the rates needed to end poverty in those places. The expectation is that with more urbanization and longer years of schooling, especially for girls, fertility rates will decline in those places as well.

Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions

the fish that coastal communities depend on for food. But these and other natural defenses against climate change are rapidly disappearing. Nearly nine million acres of old-growth forest were destroyed

Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

This Scientist Has a Risky Plan to Cool Earth. There’s Growing Interest.

David Gelles nytimes.com

Richard Heinberg and his colleagues at the Post-Carbon Institute have outlined Four Ways to Decline:

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

for instance, if the ice-like crystalline structures containing large amounts of methane on the ocean floor become unstable and erupt. In a relatively short time, disasters could strike around the world, overwhelming our attempts to

Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

In an essay called “Weird Ecology,” the writer David Tompkins compares Area X to a “hyperobject,” a term philosopher Timothy Morton used “to describe events or systems or processes that are too complex, too massively distributed across space and time, for humans to get a grip on.” Global warming, black holes, and mass extinction are contemporary ex... See more

e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92

After Valencia, nobody can say they did not know

We used to think the kind of damage wrought by recent flooding in the west of Spain was beyond imagination. Very soon, it could become the norm

Dominic Hinde9th November 2024

Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a

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