My recently published trilogy, ‘Katja's World Game’, explores the nature of climate change, its consequences, and proposes a new way of living that works with the environment - not against it. My six main characters are university students of ecology. In my final novel, ‘Katja's World Game, The Overstory’, opposition to the solution grows but the students refuse to give up!
Sure, "dream of better futures" and "we can have better things" but only in the context of what's possible. What I rarely see is a serious examination of what 8 billion people can have, sustainably, on a finite planet. What is a sustainable level of resource extraction? What is a sustainable level of use of renewable resources? What is a sustainable level of damage we can do to our environment. What size of population can be sustained? What other species are critical to our existence and to our civilisation? Having already crossed most of the planetary boundaries (and we need to step back from those), we need some critical thinking. First, what are those sustainable levels? Once we have a clear idea of those, we can dream within that context.
Those working in the sales and promotion of GHG climate science aren’t required to care about, or even engage with, the broader Earth system, despite operating within its scope. Emotional investment is expected to center on CO₂; everything else is treated as a side effect. That’s probably why the site administrator didn’t give your comment a like, a detail that stands out to me as a newcomer. Even though your heart is in the right place, your holistic view of the system wasn’t reduced to a simple GHG narrative, and critical thinking tends to be unwelcome.
we are trying to do our 'bit' in Uganda: https://climatetalkuganda.fireside.fm/
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My recently published trilogy, ‘Katja's World Game’, explores the nature of climate change, its consequences, and proposes a new way of living that works with the environment - not against it. My six main characters are university students of ecology. In my final novel, ‘Katja's World Game, The Overstory’, opposition to the solution grows but the students refuse to give up!
Sure, "dream of better futures" and "we can have better things" but only in the context of what's possible. What I rarely see is a serious examination of what 8 billion people can have, sustainably, on a finite planet. What is a sustainable level of resource extraction? What is a sustainable level of use of renewable resources? What is a sustainable level of damage we can do to our environment. What size of population can be sustained? What other species are critical to our existence and to our civilisation? Having already crossed most of the planetary boundaries (and we need to step back from those), we need some critical thinking. First, what are those sustainable levels? Once we have a clear idea of those, we can dream within that context.
Those working in the sales and promotion of GHG climate science aren’t required to care about, or even engage with, the broader Earth system, despite operating within its scope. Emotional investment is expected to center on CO₂; everything else is treated as a side effect. That’s probably why the site administrator didn’t give your comment a like, a detail that stands out to me as a newcomer. Even though your heart is in the right place, your holistic view of the system wasn’t reduced to a simple GHG narrative, and critical thinking tends to be unwelcome.