Monday, 30 June 2025

"I am becoming more and more confident that we are looking at +3°C of warming BY 2050." - Richard Crim

"Reaching +3°C of warming by 2050 probably means civilizational COLLAPSE by 2050. At least the insurance industry thinks so."

https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/the-crisis-report-107

Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Future of the human climate niche

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117

This appears to predict a billion refugees at 2.2C of heating and another billion at 3.2C.

Thursday, 25 August 2022

This Is Not The Zombie Apocalypse - Usha Alexander on societal collapse

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/04/this-is-not-the-zombie-apocalypse.html

In a way this is the most positive thing I’ve read for a while, although still scary. It’s long but basically says collapse isn’t necessarily the end of the world (although it's important to note that previous societies which collapsed may not have been analogous to ours), and we need to start imagining the other world that is possible to make it so.

Climate Change and the Dharma of Failure - Roy Scranton on Buddhism in the Anthroposcene

https://therevealer.org/climate-change-and-the-dharma-of-failure/