Alex Steffen

Let's remember that fossil fuel interests have long been at the core of these efforts, and still are.

Climate predatory delay isn't the only agenda being served, but it's inextricable from the others—and the $$/power of those like the Koch Bros, Putin and Saudis have driven much of the onslaught.

The savage layoffs and editorial undermining at the Washington Post — like the "DOGE" massacres and the takeover of Twitter — are civic sabotage, pure and simple.

When government and democratic institutions are undermined, those who want unaccountable power are strengthened.

Where does one begin? Last Day! Flash Sale for the Personal Climate Strategy Workshop ends today.

"For each of us, there’s the big abstract future, tumbling off into the unknowable, and then there’s our personal future... the future of the people we care about, the work we do, the legacies we hope to leave behind."

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What Is a Sustainable Future on a Planet in Upheaval? Staving off catastrophic warming is now only a part of humanity's climate challenge.

"No matter what we do, we are in for massive and unprecedented climate, ecological and societal upheavals. That discontinuity is now hard-wired into every plausible future in front of us."

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What Is a Sustainable Future on a Planet in Upheaval? Staving off catastrophic warming is now only a part of humanity's climate challenge.

"No matter what we do, we are in for massive and unprecedented climate, ecological and societal upheavals. That discontinuity is now hard-wired into every plausible future in front of us."

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We thought we had time. Design your future in a chaotic era.

"Help is not on the way. Even the best-governed societies aren’t responding at the pace demanded... there’s less sign than ever that someone else — the government, markets, activists — is coming to the rescue. We have to rescue ourselves."

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The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late | Editorial Editorial: Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issues

Discontinuity is here. Climate and ecological disruptions are having unprecedented impacts in the lives of every person on Earth.

And, yes, that has profound security implications.

"Nature is a foundation of national security" is exactly right.

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Why do some people want you to ignore climate threats? Those who stand to benefit when climate risk is denied want you to believe no place is any safer than the worst places. Don't buy it.

People who never paid attention to climate before are now suddenly telling us "no place is safe" from climate chaos.

What they really mean is "don't compare the risks facing different places — because our brittle investments will lose value if you do."

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Your Personal Climate Strategy — Acclaimed 30-Day Workshop Is your family safe in the climate crisis? Should you move? Where? How soon? What steps can you take to be ready? Climate expert Alex Steffen teaches you how to answer these questions and build a stra...

The planetary crisis will define our future, and almost none of us have personal strategies for meeting it.

This four-week Personal Climate Strategy Workshop is probably the best crash course in applied climate foresight anywhere.

Check it out:
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We thought we had time. Design your future in a chaotic era.

"Help is not on the way. Even the best-governed societies aren’t responding at the pace demanded... there’s less sign than ever that someone else — the government, markets, activists — is coming to the rescue. We have to rescue ourselves."

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Everything humans have made was made with a certain sense of normal in mind. Within a given range of tolerances, that things will work more or less as expected.

Climate chaos nudges the context for every object & system in our world, pushing them into conditions that exceed their design tolerances.

The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late | Editorial Editorial: Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issues

Discontinuity is here. Climate and ecological disruptions are having unprecedented impacts in the lives of every person on Earth.

And, yes, that has profound security implications.

"Nature is a foundation of national security" is exactly right.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reviewing Alex Steffen's Personal Climate Strategy Workshop My thoughts on the most valuable climate foresight training I’ve taken

Clearheaded, supportive review of my personal climate strategy workshop from former colleague (and recent alumnus) Justus Stewart.

Tbh, "left me sometimes struggling to keep up with the volume of concepts and tools" is a fair critique.

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A lot of smart people have underestimated the extent to which the core barrier in action to limit the planetary crisis is simply shameless lying in service of predatory delay.

Things fall apart; the maintenance schedule cannot hold. Climate foresight at a small scale.

NEW: When it comes to climate foresight, the small stuff really adds up.

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The entire industrial civilisation is planned,built and run on statistics and averages.But statistics and averages do not hold well when the proportion of tail events explodes–

'The nature of discontinuity,though,is that what was true before becomes a poor guide for making decisions in the present'

Things fall apart; the maintenance schedule cannot hold. Climate foresight at a small scale.

"the climate crisis is a crisis precisely because of the magnitude of discontinuity it’s driving into the systems, natural and human, upon which our civilization was built. That process is speeding up, meaning... less time to prepare for tumultuous change."
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Once again, we're not yet ready for what's already happened.

Predatory delay on climate action is a central engine driving the fascism we see around us today.

When given the choice of accepting the evidence and shifting to a low-carbon economy, or undermining democracy itself, the Carbon Lobby went all in on Trump.

“We think of climate impacts as huge, monstrous things — giant dinosaur weather-beasts rampaging across our cities. But it turns out we should be at least as worried about the plague of small strains spreading through our lives, eating away at systems functionality like a horde of gnawing rodents.”

Things fall apart; the maintenance schedule cannot hold. Climate foresight at a small scale.

NEW: When it comes to climate foresight, the small stuff really adds up.

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'Climate chaos is already making us poorer.
We're just pretending it's not.'

Once again, we're not yet ready for what's already happened.

The moment of escalating discontinuity.

When we pass what thresholds—and how extreme the systems upheavals they trigger will be—we don't precisely know.

But we know we should be cutting emissions on an emergency basis and ruggedizing our societies for conditions no one has ever experienced before.

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A lot of smart people have underestimated the extent to which the core barrier in action to limit the planetary crisis is simply shameless lying in service of predatory delay.

(It keeps going...)

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About that "we should track clean energy deployment, not emissions cuts" argument...

A thread from long ago...

Clean energy is, in some ways, the least challenging piece of the puzzle.