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Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

From: Changing Tides

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We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with prosperity.” It does so by synthesizing, in a lively way, key concepts from economics, renewable energy and climate science. Full force decarbonization must begin no later than 2020 and, from then on, must keep going. Technologically and financially, we are ready to do this. But will we choose to do so? Between the extremes of extinction-causing prehistoric hunters, agriculturists that homogenize and simplify landscapes, and climate-destroying industrialists with a knack for altering the chemistry of half-a-billion-year-old fossils, lies another way of being in the world.

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Alejandro Frid

Alejandro Frid, Ph.D., an ecologist for First Nations of British Columbia’s Central Coast and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, has for over two decades inhabited the worlds of science, modern Indigenous cultures, and climate activism. He lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia.