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The Relocation Bottleneck and You
How the "climate squeeze" is making it harder to find a home that's relatively safe, and why the problem will almost certainly get worse.
 • Alex Steffen
Welcome to the future we fought for five decades to avoid.
Massive climate discontinuity means we no longer live in a world that can solve its most pressing problems in an orderly way.
 • Alex Steffen
The Basics of Navigating Climate Chaos
How to plan your next steps, when you’ve stopped believing that “normal” is coming back.
 • Alex Steffen
The Future Is Shifting Faster Than the Consensus About the Future Can Change
The New Climate Foresight is about making strategic choices in a world defined by discontinuity.
 • Alex Steffen
THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDPARENTS' HEAT
Or your great³⁵⁰-grandparents' heat, either.
THE NEW CLIMATE FORESIGHT
Strategy in an age of accelerating discontinuity: a briefing. Friday June 26th.
 • Alex Steffen
El Niño, Famines, Lost Cities, Mass-Migrations, and Brittle Achievers
What decades of climate foresight, well, foresaw is now the news.
 • Alex Steffen
The Snap Forward
The Snap Forward
Climate futurist Alex Steffen helps you see the patterns beneath the chaos — and build new strategies for life in a time of planetary discontinuity.
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