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HomeMy WebLinkAbout033023 FW_ The Past 20 Years _ PCI Messenger March 2023 ________________________________ From: Post Carbon Institute Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2023 9:00:46 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Greg Brotherton Subject: The Past 20 Years | PCI Messenger March 2023 ________________________________ ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. ________________________________ <https://mcusercontent.com/311db31977054c5ef58219392/images/30ee1648-4597-d6e3-7b99-198b6b772ca7.jpg> This month, we're celebrating PCI's 20th anniversary by reminiscing on all we've accomplished the past two decades, and given the latest IPCC report, we're taking note of how far we have yet to go. <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=dbcee54eef&e=229f6020b9> LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD by Richard Heinberg Rather than focusing on one issue, such as climate change, Post Carbon Institute sought to show why many existential threats (resource depletion, biodiversity loss, pollution, economic inequality, financial precarity, climate change, and more) are converging. These problems, as well as a heap of temporary benefits (immense wealth for the few, easy mobility, cheap food, a burgeoning urban middle class, and a dizzying array of consumer goods), have issued from a single historically recent development—exploitation of fossil fuels. 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But so far, we members of global humanity just haven’t been able to turn the tide. The latest IPCC report documents that carbon emissions are still increasing, despite all the promises and efforts of the past few decades. The report tells us there’s only a narrow (and rapidly shrinking) pathway to averting climate catastrophe. Why is this so hard? Because it would require sacrifice. Why would it require sacrifice? Let’s walk through the logic. 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The fifth installation in the series features PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg and community leaders from Corvallis, Oregon. To receive more information about these events, s <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=d3b77df359&e=229f6020b9> ign up for Bio4Climate’s email list <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.co m/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=585e87ae0b&e=229f6020b9> <https://mcusercontent.com/311db31977054c5ef58219392/images/b9657ff2-d92f-8a37-71b9-0291f19b404d.jpg> <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=6a74607b44&e=229f6020b9> Thanks to our generous community, PCI has produced a slew of products over the past two decades—from groundbreaking books to irreverent podcasts. Without your support, we simply couldn't advocate for community resilience and localized economies as effectively. Celebrate our 20th anniversary with us by making a donation today <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=77d7910bdc&e=229f6020b9> . DONATE <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=a5ddb1992f&e=229f6020b9> RESILIENCE PICKS <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=242cc8c000&e=229f6020b9> I Want a Better Catastrophe: Excerpt <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=4205581298&e=229f6020b9> by Andrew Boyd, Robin Wall Kimmerer We met up in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, a far cry from Detroit. We’re at the Blue Mountain Center, an ecology­ oriented writing center in the middle of the largest state park east of the Mississippi. We’ve both been here several times before, to write, reflect, hike, or to clear brush, patch holes, or pitch in in whatever way we can. The place is like a home away from home for both of us. <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=40660d5e46&e=229f6020b9> Tough Times for Wandering Luddites <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=c5c7d6c144&e=229f6020b9> by Nathanael Bonnell All around me rises downtown Portland, Oregon. Arcing through the air fly the grumbling, asphyxiating lanes of Interstate interchanges; across the river the skyscrapers of the business district ascend, with raggedy tent cities mushrooming about their feet; fifty feet directly above my catchout spot by the Union Pacific tracks, a bridge carries a road that leads a couple blocks north to the convention center. But I’m not in downtown Portland. COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT <https://postcarbon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=311db31977054c5ef58219392&id=b36f9b4d83&e=229f6020b9> GEN DREAD: A NEWSLETTER ABOUT STAYING SANE IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS One of our most popular What Could Possibly Go Right? podcast guests, Dr. Britt Wray, explores the impact the climate crisis has on our mental health in her online newsletter, Gen Dread. In her newest publication, she touches on the bleakness of the most recent IPCC report and how we as a society can digest such horrific news. She also tips her hat to another WCPGR? guest, Canadian climate strategist, Tzeporah Berman, and gives a shout-out to PCI Advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin. 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