Alex Steffen

Iran War Live Updates: Trump ‘Actively Considering’ U.S. Role in Iran After Conflict Ends The U.S. sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean with a torpedo from a submarine. Follow along for live updates, news and analysis as the conflict in the Middle East unfolds.

Not only is there no Plan B, there is no Plan A.

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Analytically, I get what the situation is.

But emotionally, I really want to know when the adults are going to step in and put a stop to this shit.

Decarbonization has always been inevitable.

Almost the entire climate fight has been about how quickly we can accelerate progress, and how long fossil fuel industries and their allies can delay progress.

And winning too slowly is the same thing as losing.

(ht/ Colin McCarthy)

No one wants it to be true. The failures of our leaders have left each of us responsible for finding our own way through climate chaos and discontinuity.

“When we snap forward into acceptance of where we are, we gain an enormous power: the power to learn with a fresh mind.”

No one wants it to be true - @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Decarbonization has always been inevitable.

Almost the entire climate fight has been about how quickly we can accelerate progress, and how long fossil fuel industries and their allies can delay progress.

And winning too slowly is the same thing as losing.

(ht/ Colin McCarthy)

Am I … A Climate Denier?!? “So, should we reserve the cabin again next year? This is the second straight year that there’s been barely enough snow to ski.” Joel asked…

Reupping a piece I wrote recently about denial, personal and political, in the face of a rapidly changing climate. 1/
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I think about this Hunter Thompson quote a lot these days, "The world is not mad, as I thought, but sane in the cheapest kind of way."
from a letter to Daryl Murphy, 1962

Where does one begin? Last Day! Flash Sale for the Personal Climate Strategy Workshop ends today.

"For each of us, there’s the big abstract future, tumbling off into the unknowable, and then there’s our personal future... the future of the people we care about, the work we do, the legacies we hope to leave behind."

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We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

"The nature of this crisis is to chip away at our capacities to act before its severity compels us to act."

Finding ways to increase our options as discontinuity deepens (by avoiding brittleness, ruggedizing against loss, and accelerating solutions) is the center of climate strategy.

Discontinuity is the Job The planetary crisis and your career: 12 key insights.

Really good stuff.

Reminds me of @alexsteffen.bsky.social’s most-shared piece.

Not sure if you’ve come across this before, but if not you may find it thematically complementary & helpful.

I share this one every chance I get haha

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I wrote this a year ago. It stands up pretty well.

In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.

Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.

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This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
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Great piece.

The civilizational nihilism - crypto casino - maxx yourself loop is wild, especially when the basement survivalism stuff gets stirred in.

Some of it has a very Yukio Mishima narcissistic fascist self-destruction vibe.

Your Personal Climate Strategy — Acclaimed 30-Day Workshop Is your family safe in the climate crisis? Should you move? Where? How soon? What steps can you take to be ready? Climate expert Alex Steffen teaches you how to answer these questions and build a stra...

Excited for the next Personal Climate Strategy Workshop!

It's been a fantastic experience iterating this course nine times, having so many people share the difference it's made for them and learning so much along the way.

Today's the last day to register.

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Reviewing Alex Steffen's Personal Climate Strategy Workshop My thoughts on the most valuable climate foresight training I’ve taken

A course review of the Personal Climate Strategy Workshop from Justus Stewart.

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"It Will Change the Way You Think About Planning for Your Future." Learn how to find your path through the chaos. Begins February 12th!

This season's Personal Climate Strategy Workshop starts Thursday.

I'd really appreciate your help spreading the word.

Please repost, forward or copy onto little notes and share via carrier pigeons.

Thanks!

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Let's remember that fossil fuel interests have long been at the core of these efforts, and still are.

Climate predatory delay isn't the only agenda being served, but it's inextricable from the others—and the $$/power of those like the Koch Bros, Putin and Saudis have driven much of the onslaught.

The savage layoffs and editorial undermining at the Washington Post — like the "DOGE" massacres and the takeover of Twitter — are civic sabotage, pure and simple.

When government and democratic institutions are undermined, those who want unaccountable power are strengthened.

Where does one begin? Last Day! Flash Sale for the Personal Climate Strategy Workshop ends today.

"For each of us, there’s the big abstract future, tumbling off into the unknowable, and then there’s our personal future... the future of the people we care about, the work we do, the legacies we hope to leave behind."

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What Is a Sustainable Future on a Planet in Upheaval? Staving off catastrophic warming is now only a part of humanity's climate challenge.

"No matter what we do, we are in for massive and unprecedented climate, ecological and societal upheavals. That discontinuity is now hard-wired into every plausible future in front of us."

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What Is a Sustainable Future on a Planet in Upheaval? Staving off catastrophic warming is now only a part of humanity's climate challenge.

"No matter what we do, we are in for massive and unprecedented climate, ecological and societal upheavals. That discontinuity is now hard-wired into every plausible future in front of us."

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We thought we had time. Design your future in a chaotic era.

"Help is not on the way. Even the best-governed societies aren’t responding at the pace demanded... there’s less sign than ever that someone else — the government, markets, activists — is coming to the rescue. We have to rescue ourselves."

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The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late | Editorial Editorial: Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issues

Discontinuity is here. Climate and ecological disruptions are having unprecedented impacts in the lives of every person on Earth.

And, yes, that has profound security implications.

"Nature is a foundation of national security" is exactly right.

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Why do some people want you to ignore climate threats? Those who stand to benefit when climate risk is denied want you to believe no place is any safer than the worst places. Don't buy it.

People who never paid attention to climate before are now suddenly telling us "no place is safe" from climate chaos.

What they really mean is "don't compare the risks facing different places — because our brittle investments will lose value if you do."

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Your Personal Climate Strategy — Acclaimed 30-Day Workshop Is your family safe in the climate crisis? Should you move? Where? How soon? What steps can you take to be ready? Climate expert Alex Steffen teaches you how to answer these questions and build a stra...

The planetary crisis will define our future, and almost none of us have personal strategies for meeting it.

This four-week Personal Climate Strategy Workshop is probably the best crash course in applied climate foresight anywhere.

Check it out:
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