by Daniel Brouse Humans are part of nature. Yet much of modern society has become fundamentally out of balance with the natural world that sustains us. The energy imbalance is the cause of climate change. Human activity has disrupted the Earth’s natural energy balance, creating an accelerating accumulation and redistribution of energy throughout the climate […]
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Humanity’s Greatest Threat Is Humanity
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Cognitive Ability, Christian Nationalism, and Climate Change Denial
Simplified Introduction Cognitive Ability, Christian Nationalism & Climate Change Denial A new 2026 study by sociologist S. L. Perry finds a significant negative association between verbal cognitive ability and Christian nationalist beliefs in the United States. That finding raises an important question: What does cognition have to do with climate change denial? Climate science is […]
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Scientific Publishing 101
Scientific Publishing 101 by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Publishing scientific papers, articles, and essays is far more backward than most people realize. In many fields, authors are not paid to publish; they may actually have to pay publication or open-access fees. Scientific publishing operates very differently from the music business. A young musician may […]
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Money Moves People: Why Demand Destruction May Be the Fastest Path Beyond Fossil Fuels
by Daniel Brouse 2026: The New Economic Reality Money moves people. The climate costs of fossil-fuel dependence are increasingly outweighing its benefits—not in some distant future, but here and now. We are moving beyond arguments about what climate change might cost decades from today. Across the Western world, climate impacts are already imposing costs of […]
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The Good Ancestor
A poem by Daverick Leggett Every day I walk a hundred yearsto the hill where my great, great granddaughter sits.I carry words of blessingand reach to touch her back. But feeling me near she turns,sad-eyed and heavy with grief. “What was it like?” she asks,“when the great whales swam,when the birds sang you awake,when the […]
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The Good Ancestor and the Climate System: Applying Long-Term Thinking to a Nonlinear Climate Future
by Daniel Brouse Introduction Roman Krznaric’s The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World begins with a deceptively simple question: How can we become good ancestors? His argument is fundamentally about time. Modern societies have become increasingly organized around immediate rewards, quarterly results, election cycles, daily news, and rapidly changing information. […]
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Science Is Science: Confronting Denialism and Ecofascism
About Denialism and Ecofascism: Science Is Science The ObservationGlad to know you’re watching out! At the same time, this divisiveness—when we desperately need everyone to pull together because it’s a CRISIS, right?—makes me somehow deeply sad. That’s a big job right there… How do we reach those who seem furthest away from any kind of […]
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The Two Sides of the Climate Crisis: Consumption and Production
by Daniel Brouse Climate change is often discussed as a problem of emissions, but emissions are the result of two interconnected forces: consumption and production. Q: What are the greatest drivers of climate change?A: Consumption and production. At present, I would rank our addiction to consumption and ecofascism as the two most significant drivers of […]
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What Are the Odds? An Estate Plan for the Next Seven Generations
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee When I began this journey more than three decades ago, I wasn’t a climate researcher. I was a financial planner specializing in business, economics, estate planning, and risk management. My academic background included economics, philosophy, and extensive study in physics, calculus, statistics, and systems analysis. My career focused on […]
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Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
What Is Civilization Collapse? Humans are unlikely to face immediate extinction under foreseeable climate scenarios. Our species possesses technological capabilities, global communication networks, and a remarkable ability to adapt to changing conditions. Let’s lower the bar then to civilization collapse and define the term. Not talking about timeframes, could you explain what that term means […]
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