Technosphere Earth

We failed to stop dangerous climate change and it's perfectly reasonable to despair about that

Citizen assemblies can be the source of real climate action. That's why politicians often fear them.

The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities

Proposals to 'fix' climate change with geoengineering are unhinged, but risk becoming inevitable

Another week, another reflection on a workshop. This one was much more positive, even though it was about the end of the world.

The plan this week was to talk about climate doomism - the argument that the collapse of industrialised civilisation is now unavoidable. But today I need to take up some of your bandwidth with something else, because a meeting this week reminded me just how grossly insufficient climate policy is.

A new climate change documentary for a new climate

A hotter more dangerous world demands new thinking about the climate crisis

The government's approval of airport expansion exposes empty net zero promises