CES Series on Climate Implications We’ve driven our cars slowly past highway construction sites on hot summer days and felt sympathy for the workers bearing the sun’s heat near newly laid asphalt. Hot weather has always made such jobs disagreeable, but as the world warms the nature of outdoor labor will become worse than disagreeable….
Climate—A New Story Charles Eisenstein (North Atlantic Books, 2018) It would not be an exaggeration to say that climate change has become the defining narrative for those who sense the precariousness of civilization’s current direction. Carbon accounting serves as a proxy for all matters ecological; the prevention of warming to catastrophic levels has become the…
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World, J.R. McNeil (W. W. Norton, 2000) Ecclesiastes laments: 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises. . . . 8…
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945, J.R. McNeil and Peter Engelke (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014) Civilization began with the rise of Neolithic farming villages around 10,000 BCE. All of human development until very recently occurred during the geologic epoch known as the Holocene. In the history of…
Roy Morrison’s latest Book is “Sustainability Sutra” (Select Books, 2017). He builds solar farms. Local action on climate is both an essential and available path for ecological transformation. Local action does not require permission from Washington or from Paris. Action overcomes despair. Local action and planning for sustainability is essential to avoid severe climate change…