Nature

Framing nature as “natural resources” misleads us into thinking we’re landlords, when we’re merely tenants.

Scientists are trained to be factual, rational and exhaustive. This becomes a liability in the media arena, where the winning formula is to push opinions, through emotional speeches and cherry-picked facts.

By nature, democracy is incompatible with the existence of an exploitative ultra-wealthy elite. If one exists, the other cannot.

In a democracy, rulers are structurally discouraged to enact new climate taxes, regulations and obligations. The benefits will mostly be invisible in the next election cycle, but the uprising may be immediate.

To gauge how serious any government is about climate change, compare the swiftness and significance of its climate actions, to those taken during the latest uprising it faced.

A seemingly unresolvable paradox on the pace at which climate regulation should be enacted: slow enough to minimize contestation, yet fast enough to avoid more dramatic changes.

Climate change has been the cause of all previous mass extinctions. The only difference this time, is that we caused it, not some asteroid, volcano or tectonic shift.

Current technology is already incapable of mitigating severe natural disasters, despite centuries of effort. Future technology will not do better with less resources and more severe events.

Those who amassed fortunes large enough to shield themselves from the consequences of climate change, also happen to be the ones that caused it.

Elijah, Jesus or Mahdi could be good substitutes for “technology” in the mouth of those who claim it will save us from climate change.

In most things, a small group of crooks can herd a large group of idiots to their death as long as the journey is comfortable. Climate action is not different.

Current technology is incapable of mitigating severe natural disasters, despite centuries of refinement. Future technology will not do better with less resources and more severe events.

Mass media are unlikely to drive meaningful climate action, for as long as they will continue to be owned by the very group that pollutes the most.

Change would happen at a more adequate pace if climate action was framed as a war against top polluters, rather than a collection of goodwill initiatives towards nature.

The ties between humans and primates become evident when looking at how poorly we navigate the trade-offs between climate apocalypse, and short-term comfort.

Wherever there is a millennia-old rule, there is a natural human tendency to do otherwise.

Order is a self-fulfilling prophecy – it manifests when most believe that it will be enforced.

The link between destruction and accumulation is stronger than most realize.

Boredom is one of the most ubiquitous states. It is both the root of all progress, and all evil.

Natural disasters are Earth’s attempts to cleanse its surface from the parasites that feed from it.

The recent trajectory of humanity resembles that of cancer cells, which replicate exponentially until they eventually kill both their host and themselves.

Impermanence in the essence of life – everything that is, is meant to go away.