Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist
I would prefer to be labeled a realist, someone who sees things as they are, who has a healthy respect for good data and solid analysis (or at least credible theory).
David Hughes’ Shale Reality Check 2019
1.9 million. 13 trillion. 10 billion. These are the numbers that jumped off the page when I read PCI Fellow David Hughes’s latest “shale reality check” report on the U.S. government’s forecasts of domestic oil and gas production. To...
Why I Spent the Last Two Years Writing a Book about Imagination
It was a quote by my late friend and mentor David Fleming that tipped me over into thinking that writing a book about imagination was something I needed to do. In ‘Lean Logic’, he wrote “if the mature market...
Choosing Extinction
The climate strikes over the coming weeks will focus a great deal of attention on government and the urgent need for policy action. Rightly so. But it’s also a good time to reflect on the bigger context, as this...
This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need
it can’t be just young people. It needs to be all of us
Tax the Rich Before the Rest
Presidential candidates should take a pledge: The middle class should not pay one dollar more in new taxes until the super-rich pay their fair share.
The Human Predicament
We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? This is Nate Hagens' keynote address discussing the issues from The Resilience Gathering 2019.
The Climate Movement: What’s Next?
Fighting for their human and legal rights often means complicating the lives of the fossil fuel industry.
Resilience in the Face of Climate Change with Richard Heinberg
Take a glimpse at what our future climate might mean for us and how we can prepare for the coming changes.
Why the Next 12 Years Could be the Making of Us
Here is an article I wrote for the latest edition of Reconnect magazine. I changed the title as I prefer my own one. I hope you enjoy it. After two extraordinary weeks in which Extinction Rebellion brought London to a...