Category: Commentary

Ralph Nader reviews The End of Ice.

Capitalism disconnects us from that which sustains us: our planet. Let’s devote ourselves to reconnecting. Read the full story on Truthout.

Older generations have a moral obligation to stand with youth amid the climate catastrophe. Read the full story here.

In a world where a future is no longer guaranteed, where do we find the motivation to act? Here’s a framework. Read the story at Truthout.

Climate change is the single most important story for planet Earth, but the media either ignores it or downplays the crisis. Read the full op/ed at The Print.

Perhaps the wisdom we need most is already right before our eyes. Read the full story on Truthout.

In this excerpt from The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, author Dahr Jamail explains how he learned to process the heartbreaking truth of inevitable climate destruction and the possibility of mass extinction. Read the excerpt here.

I’ve never shared the widespread interest in hope or despair. We have a moral responsibility to do what needs doing. What more has to be said? But the work of the doctor/narrator in Albert Camus’ The Plague, which I’ve referred people to as a model is not quite right — or at least could be misleading.

Proclaiming that the end is nigh has now become the labor of the very opposite of a deluded religious devotee. And the question framed by Robert Frost of whether the world will end in fire or ice is no longer in dispute. The world will soon end in fire, possibly the fire of the Pentagon’s