Climate is the most dramatic illustration of how we shouldn't try to predict the future but, instead, invent and build a more hopeful alternative. Sadly, if we were forecasting, the most likely future of our climate is a continuation of the long history of insufficient action in the face of ever-stronger scientific evidence of human-driven change and impending disaster.
It’s all the more critical, then, to articulate a less likely - but still achievable - Future History of Climate we can collectively work toward.
That's the focus of this week's serialization of "A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the world we can proudly leave to our kids by 2050," which I coauthored with Paul Carroll and Tim Andrews.
If we don’t do so, the consequences will be disastrous for our kids and their kids - rising sea levels; extreme flooding and storms; heat waves; wildfires; droughts; devastated farming, fishing, and other food production; flooded cities and infrastructure; mass migration; resource wars; and more. We’re already seeing some effects. Try to think of the last time you managed to go online and didn’t see an image of a wildfire, massive flooding, or even perhaps the ocean on fire...
We hope you'll take a read and/or listen, and tell the algorithmic overlords that you give it a thumbs up.
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