@privateshufti@mastodon.social2025-08-25 10:05:23
The ornamental pond on Southampton Common (known as the Lake) is almost completely dried up after a prolonged drought. The foliage is looking parched and faded. The new normal?
#ClimateDiary #summer
@privateshufti@mastodon.social2025-08-25 10:05:23
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-24 14:46:34
Content warning: Tiago Forte on thinking about climate change
Good to see Tiago Forte talking about this. A lot of people read his stuff.
(He's a writer/teacher best known for the "Building a Second Brain" framework.)
"It was that summer when climate change stopped being an abstract concept and became viscerally personal for me. I realized that this wasn’t a one-time freak event—every summer we could expect deteriorating air quality from rampant wildfires. ...
"This convergence of physical heat, failing infrastructure, and human vulnerability isn’t just a temporary inconvenience. It’s a preview of the fundamental challenge that Jeff Goodell explores in The Heat Will Kill You First, a book that forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: all our routines for productive living and working are built on the assumption of a stable climate. It no longer makes sense for me to teach people how to build productive systems without taking into account the increasing instability of our wider environment."
#TiagoForte #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #environment #books #heatwave