A Better Future
We still have time to act.
Humanity still has time to mobilize in order to protect the land and transition away from fossil fuels and onto renewable sources of energy. We have time to create a cleaner and more just world, one in which our collective values shift towards satisfaction, equality, and harmony with Earth and other species and away from greed, injustice, and destruction of the natural world.
If we continue on with business-as-usual, Earth will become increasingly dangerous and uninhabitable and could result in the end of organized society and the disintegration of human rights.
The window of time that humanity has to reverse the climate emergency and ensure that Earth remains habitable is rapidly closing. Once Earth hits tipping points and heads towards what climate scientists call an ‘uninhabitable hothouse Earth,’ humanity will no longer have the ability to control the trajectory of global heating.
Success requires collective action. Start your journey as a climate activist today!
More Reading
In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at what you can do about climate change using individual, personal, and collective actions. This video, however, is not a simple list of the best things a person can do to change their lifestyle and shrink their carbon footprint, instead I start by looking at the way in which we’ve globally become fixated on individual solutions to climate change. We envision ourselves more as consumers than as citizens. As a result carbon footprint related actions like flying less, zero waste, and recycling are prioritized over voting, protesting, and system change. This video is all about doing both personal things to lower your carbon footprint like driving less, but simultaneously acting collectively to create a system in which having a small carbon footprint is feasible for everyone. Structural change and individual change are both necessary to stop climate change.
What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits.