BIOSPHERE & CLIMATE

“Climate change allows us, for the first time in human history, to not think like individuals, communities, or nations, but to think like one planet.” - Stewart Brand

Biosphere

Climate Change - FLI. Introductory post with link list.
Deep Time Perspectives on Climate Change: How to Use the Paleoclimatic Record to Find Analogues and Solutions - Patrick Mellor. Long-form article on climate change, its causes, and large scale solutions.
Climate Technology Primer - Adam Marblestone. Three-piece long-form article on climate technology.

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Energy

Energy and Civilization - Vaclav Smil. On how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural societies through today.

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Biosphere

Storms of my Grandchildren - James Hansen. Starts with current events and paints a near to long-term picture of the potentially catastrophic implications of climate change.
Dark Ecology - Timothy Morton. A history account and philosophical analysis of the human position in the biosphere.
Climate Change (Extreme Risks) - Roman Duda, Arden Koehler. On potentially extreme risks associated with climate change.
Feeding Everyone: Solving the Food Crisis in Event of Global Catastrophes that Kill Crops or Obscure the Sun - David Denkenberger, Joshua Pearce. On solutions to global catastrophes obscuring the sun, such as volcanic eruption, nuclear winter, or abrupt climate change.
Double Catastrophe: Intermittent Stratospheric Geoengineering Induced by Societal Collapse - Seth Baum. On geoengineering as a solution and as a risk to societal collapse.
The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock. Positions humanity and human-induced climate change within the broader context of large-scale planetary changes.

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Energy

Blackout - Marc Ellsberg. Hard sci-fi on the potentially catastrophic implications of nation-wide energy blackouts.

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Fiction

Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson. On geo-engineering solutions to catastrophic climate change scenarios and their political implications.
Flood - Stephen Baxter. On civilizational implications of rising sea levels.

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Biosphere

The Power to Solve Climate Change - Liron. On what it means to “solve climate change”.
Co2 Removal, Other Interventions - Adam Marblestone. Introduces various rather radical interventions to climate change, from aerosols to space mirrors.

Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do - Kurzgesagt. Explainer video on the dangers of geoengineering and potential reasons for considering it.
Kelly Wanser on Whether to Deliberately Intervene in the Climate - 80000 Podcast. Podcast and transcript with link list on geoengineering.
Creon’s Recommended List on Renewable Agriculture - Creon Levit. Link list on renewable agriculture.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Buckminster Fuller. On realizing humanity’s long-term potential with a focus on resource utilization and sustainability.
Nanotechnology And The Resource Fallacy - Stephen Gillet. On how advanced nanotechnology may fundamentally help reframe our resource constraints.
Our Carbon Removal Startup Wishlist - Ryan Orbuch. Highlights fundable carbon removal company ideas.
#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment – 80K. On why agricultural productivity is so important, how much better things could get, and how we could be the first generation to build a sustainable planet.

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Energy

The Future of Fusion Energy - Jason Parisi. On the science, mechanics, and politics of fusion energy.
Securing Fuel for Our Frigid Cosmic Future - Abraham Loeb. A long-termist argument for the importance of innovative fuel solutions.
Could We Mine a Black Hole? - Adam Brown. On whether it’s possible to mine black holes and how an advanced civilization may possibly go about trying it.

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Fiction

Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson. On how an established ministry that advocates for the future sets out to fight against climate change.
Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach. On a “stable-state” ecosystem that strikes the perfect balance between human beings and the environment.
Dune Series - Frank Herbert. Sci-fi book series about a colony on a desert-ridden planet under dire conditions.

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Updates

Climate Careers - Search tool for climate jobs.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Global Climate Change - Climate Change tracker, including solutions.

Organizations

Diamondlist - Published once per year, the Diamond List is a list of climate startups that have been nominated by qualified climate investors.
Project Drawdown - Long-from reports on different solutions to climate change.
YCombinator Carbon Removal Request for Startups - Accelerator requesting startups particularly targeted at carbon removal.
UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) - Partners world-leading academics working on critical climate change issues.
Climate Central - An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public.
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change - Researchers, communicates, and coordinates various climate initiatives.
MIT Center for Global Change Science - Addresses fundamental questions about climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach and aims to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment.
Potential Early Markets for Fusion Energy - Malcolm Handley. Analysis of which markets will be opened by fusion energy.