When we talk about the metacrisis, we aren't just dealing with a changing climate. We are tangled up in a web of connected breakdowns: an epidemic of loneliness, chronic anxiety, hyper-polarisation, fragile supply chains, extreme weather events, and a nagging sense that nobody knows who or what to trust anymore. The common thread running through … Continue reading Community as an antidote for climate chaos
We are living through the unraveling of a system that can no longer sustain itself. Across global and local levels, we see the compound pressures of climate impacts, resource scarcity, skyrocketing debt burdens, and a changing economic order. As systems thinker Nate Hagens reminds us, modern civilization rests on the back of fossil fuels that … Continue reading Transitions – navigating the metacrisis
With the election only weeks away, public debate is returning to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and the possible construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Taranaki. These debates should be judged against a more direct goal: ending our dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible. The New Zealand ETS uses market … Continue reading Stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible
When the New Zealand government finalized the new Year 1 to 10 Science and Social Sciences curricula, it quietly made a glaring omission: explicit references to climate change were completely wiped from the requirements for students under the age of 14. When pressed on why a defining global reality was omitted from ten full years … Continue reading Omitting climate change from the curriculum harms young people