Facing Future Blog

We welcome you to submit blog posts on any of the stressors covered in this website, or other stressors not covered here.  Topics can include ocean and air pollution, toxic chemicals and processes, the dominance of ‘profit’ over ‘people’ and all of life on Earth, soil degradation and destructive farming and forestry practices, threats to the biodiversity of a no longer healthy ecosphere, population, how we feed ourselves, industrial and personal carbon footprints, and the many components and impacts of climate change.  Don’t forget the topics of political advocacy, and grassroots organizing that are central to Facing Future.

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February 22, 2021

Views of Future Earth – Part 1 of 4

by Usha Alexander

In the late fifteenth century, European seafarers began searching for what they called the “Northwest Passage,” a fabled route across the Arctic Ocean, which would allow them to sail northward from Europe directly into the Pacific in search of fortune. . . .

February 10, 2021

We Are Witnessing the Collapse of Society

by Stephen Kwakye

You may have a front row seat in witnessing the breakdown of the greatest societies that have ever existed in history. This is truly a one in a million spectacle and you get to witness it happening firsthand, so strap . . .

February 7, 2021

Letter to the Facing Future Team

by Nathan Jackson

I wanted to thank you for your consistent loyalty to speaking the truth. It's been a huge help to those of us trying to follow the same path. I'm sorry it came at a cost to you, Stuart. I hope . . .

January 25, 2021

Our Moment on Earth – Part 3 of 3

by Usha Alexander

As I’ve discussed in previous essays in this series, after the last glacial age loosened its grip and the climate regime stabilized into the Holocene, many of our ancestors were pursuing new, previously inconceivable experiments in living, with more and . . .

January 22, 2021

Our Moment on Earth – Part 2 of 3

by Usha Alexander

Our world is thick with stories. Gods. Devils. The Invisible Hand of the Market. Original Sin and Salvation. Karma and Kali Yuga. Progress and Liberty. The Enlightenment. Manifest Destinies. Nationalism. Racism. Patriarchies. Capitalism. Consumerism ... to name but a few . . .

January 19, 2021

Our Moment on Earth – Part 1 of 3

by Usha Alexander

For the past few years, I’ve been taking a fairly deep dive into attempting to understand the physical and ecological changes occurring on our planet and how these will affect human lives and civilization. As I’ve immersed myself in the . . .

January 12, 2021

Arctic Methane Breaking News – Part 2 of 2

by Dr. Peter Wadhams

It is known that the methane level in the atmosphere is a cumulative product of many sources, including wholly natural sources (e.g. termite mounds); natural sources enhanced by Man’s interference (e.g. digestive systems of domestic animals, or Arctic seabed sediments . . .

January 1, 2021

Modern Myths of Human Power – Part 3 of 3

by Usha Alexander

In our contemporary superhero realms, the greatest threats against the world are supervillains, often recognizable as a mythic archetype called the Trickster. These kinds of supervillains personify chaos, or – as Americans often like to call it, with their penchant . . .

December 29, 2020

Modern Myths of Human Power – Part 2 of 3

by Usha Alexander

The earliest hero whose story survives in writing is Gilgamesh, of Bronze age Mesopotamia. As a king of the Sumerian city-state, Gilgamesh was hailed a hero not because he was just and wise, but because he was king and a . . .

December 25, 2020

Arctic Methane Breaking News – Part 1 of 2

by Dr. Peter Wadhams

Methane is one of the most important greenhouse gases, second only to carbon dioxide in its heating effect, though far more potent, molecule for molecule. Its instantaneous global warming potential (GWP) is ~120 times stronger than CO2 (Myhre, G. et . . .

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