In the modern world we know, the mass media – television, radio, and the internet – function as humanity’s collective nervous system linking billions of people worldwide. The problem is these media are faili […]

Around the world, about 33% of married women opt for tubal ligation as their best guarantee of having no future births. It’s a solution that means the woman is protected regardless of partner. There’s a lot […]

The age of the sacrifice zone
He could see farther into the ground than any other mining man.
—Often said about Marcus Daly, founder of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company

We are no longer in a state of g […]

What are the drivers of unconscious consumption?
On May 14th, an interdisciplinary group of fifteen Stanford undergraduate and graduate students came together at the Stanford Design School to explore consumption […]

Wouldn’t it be great if we could put questions of climate policy directly to voters? It would be like an opinion pool with teeth and consequences.
—J Bernard

In the US, the 2016 election of President T […]

Q. What if a government refused to comply with a court order directing it to put into place a climate recovery plan that would reduce emissions sufficiently to stay below the 1.5 degree Celsius?

I have […]

It’s time to accept that we are not going to dislodge the entrenched interests holding back effective action on looming climate chaos by any means tried so far. Believing that 97% of credible scientists is c […]

At this moment in time, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, is the richest man in the world.  According to Forbes, Bezos alone has a net worth of $131 billion… that’s billion with a B. Let’s put that in perspec […]

Though both population growth and consumption have been identified as the two main factors fueling most of our global problems, far more attention has been focused on solving consumption, especially of energy, […]

The Human Predicament
In the 19th century painting shown above, Paul Gaugin takes a species level view, asking “where did we come from, who are we, where are we going”. We are the first generation of our spe […]

Thank you MAHB. Two previous articles of mine have been published to this blogsite: A Plan for the Nations and A Plan for the Nations – Step Two, and I have received insightful feedback from many of y […]

“What should I do?” It is a question anyone who works in the realm of existential threats has heard. From others and from the internal voice that guides our own actions. Though intended to inform action it is […]

How a National Post column attacking environmental activist misses the mark.

This opinion piece was first published by The Tyee and is republished here with permission from the author and […]

Climate twitter – the most fun twitter – has recently been relitigating the debate between human extinction and mere civilizational collapse, between doom and gloom, despair and (kind of) hope. It was spa […]