by naveen srivatsav
All tagged climate change
The Future We Choose is written by Christiana Figueres (a personal hero who architected the foundations for the unprecedented Paris Agreement), and Tom Rivett-Carnac (founding partner at Global Optimism). The book calls for a wide-eyed far-sighted and big-hearted response to the climate crisis, wherein we confront the scale of the challenge not with denial or fatalism, but rather with uncommon resolve and creative imagination.
An interesting question that comes up in the Climate Reality training I’m currently doing, in essence asking “what is your personal story that is at the core of your environmentalism?”. I found the question to be refreshing and evocative. The following is my answer.
Not a proper beginning-middle-end essay, but a compilation of thoughts on the topic of overpopulation as a diagnosis for climate change.
Someone asked me this question on the Climate Change group: "I am new to the front and I got stopped dead in my tracks by a Climate Change denier who showed scientific evidence that climate change is a naturally occurring phenomena and is actually LESS extreme than the natural climate change which has happened in the past, according to geological records. Help."
Here's my answer.
In a book entitled “Introduction to Lacan”, Slavoj Zizek tangentially refers to the ecological crisis of our time, and why we have been thus far unable to meaningfully engage with it. Specifically, he suggests that this failure can be explained by psychoanalysis. In this essay, I try to break the illusions of these faulty modes of response.