None of this is original. There is a long standing argument, going back at least to the early 19th Century, that complicated technologies intrinsically distance, or alienate, people from the natural world. Rather than...
Read MoreFrom The latest report slightly rephrased. 1) We can reach Drawdown by mid-century if we use the climate solutions already in hand at a large enough scale. We can solve our problems even without technological innovation. 2)...
Read MoreWilliam E. Rees is professor emeritus of human ecology and ecological economics at the University of British Columbia. He suggests that there are eleven minimum actions we need to take to avoid crisis, or to face into it....
Read MoreThere is lots of new drawdown technology, which claims to be able to make plastic and fuel out of CO2 extracted from either the air, from coal power, from cow farts and so on. I’m not being sarcastic about the cow farts,...
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