For a while now, I’ve been becoming a firmer believer in the idea of Bioregionalism, including from an economic and production perspective, as a major response to the climate crisis. A good read here : https://kirankashyap.medium.com/what-does-it-mean-for-societies-to-be-bioregionally-self-sufficient-5aad49f88b3e This pic (from the article above) gives a quick overview of the approach and…

Fifty or so years From now I will not even be a memory, really. She will not exist Nor he, nor him, Nor they, nor they. The flight, the dreams, The empires I run, The plans I strive for, The wins and losses, They all run on, by and for The very fleeting, Eventually irrelevant engine. My Ego.

I’ll be turning 50 in the coming Jan. I find myself in a position to influence and decide on a lot of things — at some scale — that could have an impact on climate. On the other hand, the lock-in into energy and materials, outcomes and measures of success…

“We don’t know how to be a civilization without fossil fuels” writes umair haque. It’s the most succinct summarization of our current times I’ve read. It’s like a 15 year old with a debit card accessing their fairly rich parents’ account with no maturity, restraint, or sense of balance. …

All species interact with the planet in a gazillion ways. Obviously. Except that us humans, over millennia, have created layers of physical and conceptual/mythical abstractions atop the planet. Today we’re at a juncture where we interact only with these layers, by and large, and hardly with the planet. This is…

So, this happened. Brazilian researchers find 'terrifying' plastic rocks on remote island TRINDADE ISLAND, Brazil, March 15 (Reuters) - The geology of Brazil's volcanic Trindade Island has fascinated…www.reuters.com Oh well. I guess it’s a milestone of sorts. I also read came across this last week. Most of what we’ve junked into the oceans isn’t even stuff we primarily use in the water. It’s just, plain, purely a dustbin.

That freshly asphalted road The sparkling granite lobby The towering buildings Flyovers, runways, edifices, Proclamations of success, Marking territory Asserting dominance. These were mountains once, And grasslands and forests That birthed, nurtured and nourished Generations of life Now consigned to oblivion In the victorious mausoleums Of these deathscapes.

Ignore the details of that picture. It’s some representation of the complexity of our economic system across the world. It includes our consumption, our work, our choices, our actions at various levels — individually, as organizations, countries, etc. I was born in a certain network in 1974. There were a…

Most of human civilisation and individual quests could be said to be built around the desire for ever more predictability and control over outcomes. For starters, it’s a spectrum and there’s no complete, true predictability of every variable possible in the human realm. Then there’s a point where the hidden costs actually add to the reverse of this — and there’s diminishing returns. Climate change was caused by many such costs adding up across people, places and time, and has brought upon us unpredictability much larger than the species has likely ever faced as a whole.