Dear Optimistic Future Self
Cameron Muir’s letter explores the struggle to maintain hope amid despair, emphasizing the need to confront harsh realities rather than seek comfort in narratives.
Cameron Muir’s letter explores the struggle to maintain hope amid despair, emphasizing the need to confront harsh realities rather than seek comfort in narratives.
Anna Mazanik reflects on writing to imprisoned environmental activist Yevgeny Vitishko, seeking hope in local resistance amid the overwhelming global environmental crisis.
In this article, environmentalist Hayal Desta considers the impact of agrarian practices and climate change on Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Sara Rich is interviewed on her recent book, Mushroom.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Martin Puchner is interviewed on his recent book, Literature for a Changing Planet .
In this episode from Outrage + Optimism, hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson discuss the importance of biodiversity, the role of nature, and environmental justice.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Nancy Fraser is interviewed on her recent book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do about It .
This article focuses on contemporary literary and musical interpretations of changing relationships between humans and the environment in Mongolia. The author explores how these works relate to deep time, and crosshatches biographical, mythological, and geologic understandings of time.
Drawing on interviews with the managers of 56 internationally adjoining protected areas in 18 countries in the Americas, the study focuses on the link between land use change and environmental change, and on three adaptation strategies, namely diversification, pooling, and out-migration. It suggests that the impact of adaptation depends on the adaptation strategy chosen.