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Alex Steffen

@alexsteffen

Climate foresight. I help people and institutions look ahead and plan strategies for thriving in a chaotic future.

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Apocalyptic predictions are a refusal to see past the end of an old era, into the possibilities of a new one. They are themselves a form of denialism.

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The economic fallout caused by our fundamental unreadiness for the huge discontinuities long unfolding around us will soon overshadow even the dire costs of worsening climate disasters. Our unreadiness for inevitable change is the most dangerous driver of this crisis.

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"The race is on to define the future of energy. Even as the dangers of global warming hang ominously over the planet... Entire industries are at stake, along with the economic and geopolitical alliances that shape the modern world." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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The CEQA messaging war — over whether California CEQA reform is a bold acceleration of sustainable urbanism or a corrupt rollback of environmental protections — runs way deeper than media is acknowledging. thenearlynow.com/ecovillage-vs-…

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Many get that the Trump gang is accelerating climate chaos. Folks absolutely 100% do not get how much worse that crisis will be for them now with this defunding climate science, gutting disaster responses & demolishing even our limited progress on ruggedizing key infrastructure.

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“I would bet against the emergence of any technologies that allow us to exceed our planetary boundaries on both a global scale and a sustained basis. But I would also bet we can...” — Alex Steffen. Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet . (Kindle Loc. 225) 1/

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...build a civilization that works within our planetary limits, and furthermore, that the realm of possibilities for human experience within those ecological limits is essentially infinite.” 2/

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Happy birthday, America. Let's remember the people who got us this far, and not give up now all that they won along the way. youtube.com/watch?v=pwXvOz…