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My impression is that the best case scenario right now is that we may not reach the worst case scenarios. David Wallace-Wells wrote an article outlining this case earlier this year, "After Alarmism," in New York Magazine. (He'd earlier written Uninhabitable Earth.) The text that makes me most optimistic is maybe Hawken's Drawdown. And Ministry for the Future is optimistic, just not in an "in our lifetime" kind of way. Take care.
Ryan wrote: "The text that makes me most optimistic is maybe Hawken's Drawdown."
That's precisely the sort of thing I was looking for! Just checked out a copy, thank you sir!
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My impression is that the best case scenario right now is that we may not reach the worst case scenarios. David Wallace-Wells wrote an article outlining this case earlier this year, "After Alarmism," in New York Magazine. (He'd earlier written Uninhabitable Earth.) The text that makes me most optimistic is maybe Hawken's Drawdown. And Ministry for the Future is optimistic, just not in an "in our lifetime" kind of way. Take care.
Ryan wrote: "The text that makes me most optimistic is maybe Hawken's Drawdown."That's precisely the sort of thing I was looking for! Just checked out a copy, thank you sir!
"I have this anxious dread that I cannot escape this heat and by extension global warming. It is an awful feeling."
I've been feeling the same lately, here in the American Southwest - wonder how long people will keep living here, and whether it'll just be abandoned in a generation or two. I'm on the hunt for a positive climate science book to counteract the scary headlines I see, something hopeful with news of optimistic solutions in the works. Haven't found one yet.