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The good news is that the Anthropocene is almost over. It may have been the shortest geological epoch in all of Earth history. The bad news is that the Catastrophocene is just beginning.
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As a scholar of the literature of climate change, I am often asked, “Can books save the planet?”. Well, not literally, no. But I do believe that fictional narratives in which characters respond to climate crises act as thought experiments—or, indeed, as ‘feeling experiments’—for the reader’s potential response. I believe that fictional, poetic, or dramatic […]
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A note by Julian Caldecott, author of Surviving Climate Chaos to mark United Nations International Mother Earth Day and Earth Day 2022: 'Invest in our planet', 22 April 2022 ‘The causes of 'war' between people and nature lie in our recent world-conquering societies, business models and technologies. The key change occurred when a critical proportion of people gave up living from local production using muscle power, to live instead from global production using machines.’
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even for those who live thousands of kilometers away from estuaries, these systems provide food, allow commerce, and protect resources that are part of their daily life Understanding the functioning of semienclosed costal bodies of water, including estuaries, has never been as pressing and as relevant to humans as it is today. Among the myriad […]
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A Red Alert is sounding over the rising tide of toxic chemistry which is inundating the Earth, humanity and all life. Recently, scientists warned that the world’s large rivers are heavily polluted by drugs [i], and the planet has already exceeded its safe boundary for man-made chemicals and plastics following a 50-fold increase in production. […]
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On this day we consider mountain ecosystems, peoples, wild species, water and weather, and salute their vital role in sustaining life and livelihoods. We also renew our commitment to saving montane environments from the casual abuses of lowland power and ignorance
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Now we remember millions of species that died from centuries of war with nature. But we can learn from this, and build peace with nature instead. We've done this many times before, and to do so again we must remember and restore the old ways of harmony and sufficiency.
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The more small groups there are, and the more they talk with each other, the more valuable they all become, to each other, to local and national governments, and to the future.
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