Lauren Kolesinskas is an amazing illustrator who, as she says, enjoys making normal things look weird. She has created an illustration for a New York Times article describing five plants and animals that are confused by climate change. Her illustration captures the...
Other than not having kids, the number one thing we can do personally to slow climate change is to stop flying. Flying is the privilege of a few; 95% of the people in the world have never taken a flight. With each flight we take, we are condemning poor people to a...
The three r’s of the climate-catastrophe generation – reduce, reuse, recycle – need a serious upgrade. In their place I propose resist, revolt, rewild. Resist debt. Resist careers. Resist chasing the dollar. Resist being sold that mass-produced gadget that will...
We humans continue to look at the destruction of nature only in terms of how it impacts humans. But the destruction of nature (and us, since we too are nature) is important for its own sake. After all, doesn’t the eagle, the salmon, the orca, the elephant, the...
This graph, from the WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2017, shows the history of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Since 1958, we’ve measured CO2 directly. To measure CO2 prior to that, we use “proxies”; that is, measurements...
In 1909 Eduard Spelterini went up in a gas balloon and took incredible photographs (with glass plates!) of the Mer de Glace glacier in the Swiss Alps. He was the first to traverse the Alps by air, and the first to photograph the mountains from the air–an amazing...
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