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Why the Cornucopia of False Solutions to Climate Change?
Why the Cornucopia of False Solutions to Climate Change? Painting: Cornelis van Haarlem – The Hesperides Filling the Cornucopia – oil on canvas, 1622 For some decades now, a steady stream of marvelous solutions to climate change have paraded past, to great fanfare…most of them false. Some of them have come by twice, like the […]
The climate response cliff
The climate response cliff Climate change is only one symptom of a broader ecological crisis; the rapid loss of wild life is equally critical. Most species other than humans and our livestock, (and pets and pests) have had horrifying drops in population within the last 70 years or so, even if they are not yet […]
New Booklet on False Solutions to Climate Change
New Booklet on False Solutions to Climate Change Starting last summer, people from several organizations have been working to update a booklet on false solutions to climate change (I was involved with this effort for awhile and wrote the first draft of a couple of the sections). Now Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resisting False Solutions to […]
A Small Farm Future: Review
A Small Farm Future: Review Chris Smaje has been a lecturer in sociology and is now a small farmer and writer, living in England. This book springs from his blog of the same name, and as posts from that blog have run on Resilience, many readers will already be familiar with Smaje and the kind […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions
False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions Editorial Note: This is Part 6 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, Part 3 on Agriculture here, Part 4 on Buildings here. and Part 5 on Geoengineering here. It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings
False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings Editorial Note: This is Part 4 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, and Part 3 on Agriculture here. Part 4: Buildings Estimations for the percentage of greenhouse gases emitted by the buildings sector vary wildly. But […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Agriculture
False Solutions to Climate Change: Agriculture Editorial Note: This is Part 3 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here and Part 2 on Transportation here. It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real but beginning to bite. Now that much of the population is […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Part 1, Electricity
False Solutions to Climate Change: Part 1, Electricity It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real but beginning to bite. Now that much of the population is finally feeling the urgency—and during a time when COVID19 has much of our frenetic commerce on hold, giving us a space for thinking and discussion–what […]
Growing a Revolution: Review
Growing a Revolution: Review Growing a Revolution: bringing our soil back to life by David R. Montgomery W. Norton & Company 321 pages $19.58 hardcover, $11.52 paperback, $9.88 Kindle, $26.29 audio CD Resilience.org asked me to review this book, probably because I did a multibook review five years ago in which I compared four books on sustainable […]
Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming: Review
Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming: Review Drawdown was a major collaborative effort involving 70 research fellows from 40 countries. It’s not so much a cohesive plan as a list of partial solutions: 80 that are tested and in use at least somewhere in the world, and another 20 that […]
