Between Burning Forests and Utopian Cities: Designing the Climate Transition

Climate denial avoids action by rejecting the necessity of transition, while climate doom shuts them down by treating transformation as an impossible outcome.

The climate transition will depend on this underappreciated, undervalued middle, through decades of decisions about repair, adaptations, and restorations.

The climate transition cannot depend on a clear before scenario and a clear after scenario, but will be composed of decades of parallel work streams.

The Ordinary Work Much of the climate transition will take place within the physical world that already exists.

The climate transition depends on an understanding of how individual decisions interact, reinforce one another, and eventually produce systemic change.