There’s a gap between our understanding of the reality of global environmental crises and what most people will say about it. This independent website will take an informal look at ideas and perspectives on sustainability, starting with basic physical aspects of climate change and mitigation.
Climate change is a critical global challenge with many dimensions and stakeholders, but let’s think about it for a moment in a simple physical sense. We’re people on a planet who need to cooperate to address the global carbon imbalance that we’re causing. We don’t actually need to mess things up further. What does the global consensus of climate experts suggest that we must do physically to solve the climate change problem? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports provide the answer. And if we can cooperate, is there any doubt that it’s physically possible for us to fully address the underlying physical problem? Of course, this simplistic lens doesn’t encompass the broader human dimensions of climate change, but when we bring all of that into the picture, the physical reality of tackling our global carbon imbalance remains unavoidable and non-negotiable.
The Climate Change posts invite you explore basic, big-picture aspects of the problem for yourself. They generally don’t weigh in on the political, cultural, economic, or ethical dimensions. They’re like easy-to-reference cheatsheets with basic facts and insights mostly from IPCC reports. There are clear explanations in the source articles, and links to these are provided at the end of each post.
Ecological decline is also a critical global challenge. It would defeat the purpose if our future decarbonisation technologies caused irreversible damage to the rest of the biosphere.
The Links page will be curated more actively later, and will take in a wider range of perspectives.
The site will slowly sketch out a unique picture of the sustainability landscape: celebrating hopeful and humane approaches that respect the integrity of nature’s systems, and recognising the need for nuanced approaches to messy and contested topics, to stay open to possibilities.
I have an engineering and technology background, and spent several years working in sustainability-related roles, and many years exploring sustainability issues.
If you’re curious about the origins of the site, click here: Background.
Cheers,
Sean
Email: info@ecorealities.com
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of country (throughout Australia), and pay my respects to their elders, past and present.