TIME REMAINING TO ACHIEVE CLIMATE ABUNDANCE
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Times Evoke
‘Gullah Geechee slaves enriched America with rice — they engineered rivers but had no voice’- Can sweet dreams be made of these?
- ‘Chocolate has an incredible history of wealth, slavery, great ecological richness — and deep loss’
- ‘Mass-produced sugar came from chemicals, corruption — and environmental destruction’
- ‘Earth’s axis and orbit shape its seasons— other planets have winter and summer too’
- ‘Air pollution needs tough steps and long vision — instead, it’s only politicised each winter’
- ‘Corporations claim it’s always jobs vs nature — but workers in the US forged movements to protect both’
- A pollutical choice
- ‘Nuclear energy is essential to end fossil fuel use — India’s solar power rise is impressive’
- What to think before we: Drill, baby drill
- ‘Fossil fuel wealth hides its violence — as climate change shows this, right-wingers are embracing it’
- ‘The ‘resource curse’ drives petro-aggression — the US left Greenland facing Project Iceworm’
- 'Rare earths help sustainability — the world doesn’t need geopolitical conflicts over them
- ‘We’ve lost 73% of global wildlife — images convey both this crisis and the power of hope’
- ‘Mining in Bolivia produces both a sense of nationalism — and deep inequalities’
- ‘The race for minerals has caused global resentments — and a huge footprint on Earth’
- Yours, mines and ores
- ‘Coal powered the idea of economic growth as having no limits — this explains the lack of climate action’
- ‘Empire to nationalism, coal mirrors the 20ᵗʰ century — in India, it shows the West’s failure’
- ‘Over 20 years, methane warms Earth 80 times more than CO2 — but it offers us opportunities’
- ‘From silver to slavery, the planetary crisis comes from the human capacity to desire — and harm’
- ‘Humans seek cobalt and gold from the oceans — but climate change is a false reason for seabed mining’
- The worst of times.. but also, the best
- ‘After WWII, America thought it could create ‘designer weather’ — few feared a downside’
- ‘Many Americans want Donald Trump again — if only women voted, Kamala Harris would win’
- Earth's greatest election
- ‘No US politician is willing to risk suggesting that Americans change how they live their fossil-fuelled lives’
- ‘Donald Trump could slow America’s energy transition — but he can’t control global trends’
- ‘To save the Wilkins bunting, we transported killer wasps to the world’s most remote isles’
- ‘America and Israel have a marriage of power — but the US deep state can change policy’
- So far, yet so near...
- ‘As global warming increases, Antarctica is starting to melt — this means oceans far away will also rise’
- ‘From colonial history to climate change, the Yukon river’s future is intertwined with ours’
- ‘Animals have endured domestication to imperialism — no species is truly ‘wild’ today’
- ‘Modern bird wings first appeared in the archaeopteryx 145 million years ago — they haven’t changed much’
- ‘The wings of huge pterosaurs and tiny bees differ — but they both produce thrust and lift’
- ‘Elephants have amazing cognitive and creative intelligence — they can even mimic our speech’
- ‘Women always led animal sheltering work in the US — America’s cat ladies are now mobilising’
- ‘Happiness comes fully to dogs — free of heavy human reflection, pets merit respect’
- Let's be pet friends forever
- 'With Donald Trump as the option, Kamala Harris is rising - despite the US economy'
- A walk in the clouds
- ‘Cloud forests move water between trees, mountains and sky — they become a Goldilocks zone for life’
- ‘We humans have altered clouds — these are not the same now as in the pre-industrial era’
- ‘Modern climate science has roots in the Hapsburg empire — it must heed marginalised voices now’
- ‘Big social media harms kids, hapless parents try to protect them — it’s a huge power imbalance’
- Rocks – & a hard place
- ‘America still uses and exports coal — mining it in Appalachia ruins forests, mountains and human health’
- ‘Mining powered the rise of global capitalism, colonisation — and ecological catastrophes’
- ‘In the US, science and media, arbiters of truth, are often mistrusted now — old fires are stoked’
