Climate Futures

Religion is part of how societies confront environmental change: through shared narratives of a lost past, confidence in particular sources of moral authority, reliance on faith-based civil society organizations, etc. Scholarly literature and media coverage have, over the past two decades, explored the various ways that religious traditions, communities, and organizations come to bear on […]

Introduction In the spring of 2018, I boarded a night train that would take me from Ulaanbaatar central station to Sainshand, the capital of Dornogovi province in the southeast of Mongolia. A good portion of the crowd was other women in their thirties, many still wearing their business casual office attire and herding a few […]

In the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina a multiplicity of forces pulse through the land. The creatures and entities inhabiting it have long transformed this seemingly arid landscape into a vibrant web of vitality. As the world races towards electromobility (ostensibly to address our climate emergency[1]), this region is being recast as a […]

Electricity can save us from the climate emergency. This is an article of faith for those seriously committed to decarbonizing the world’s energy system. Why? Electricity is the only viable alternative energy infrastructure that exists globally today. It has co-existed and co-evolved with fossil fuels for over a century in most parts of the world. […]

Climate change demands new ways of knowing the world, beyond our core secular, state-centric beliefs Introduction In Goodna, a suburb west of Brisbane, Australia, the world is ending. That may seem melodramatic, but for the residents of Enid Street, it is not as exaggerated as it sounds. Most of the houses in the neighborhood have […]