If we somehow hit a magical off button that stopped all emissions today, Earth would continue to experience rising temperatures and anthropogenic climate change for decades due to the feedback loops we’ve already triggered and the carbon that’s accumulated in the atmosphere. That’s our best-case scenario. And it’s without considering the deepening emergencies of social and economic stresses we humans are experiencing – only set to worsen with a changing climate.
But with crisis comes opportunity. “All of the things we took for granted are beginning to destabilise,” says science-fiction author Monica Byrne. “I don’t see this as a hopeless thing. I think it’s actually a very hopeful thing.”
We need new ways of living and being. Ways that are in balance and reciprocity with the Earth. But we also need better structures for relating to each other that see humans and the more-than-human flourish, equally
