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The First Step to Behavioral Change

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  Overlook on  Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway

What is Ecological Collapse?

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The beach at Glimmerglass State Park in New York

The Psychology Behind the Misunderstanding of Predicaments

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Round Barn in Indiana

Ecological Collapse Supersedes Financial Collapse

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  Seven Pillars Nature Preserve

What is Radical Acceptance?

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Lake Michigan as seen from Consumers Energy Scenic Overlook, Ludington, Michigan

Capitalism and Extinction

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The lone boat on Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes

Why is Our Lack of Agency Difficult to Accept?

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  Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

A Plea to Scientists, Teachers, Influencers, and Politicians Everywhere

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Clover Hollow Covered Bridge, Virginia

The Biggest Issue is NOT Climate Change; it is OVERSHOOT

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  Beartree Lake at Beartree Recreation Area

Carbon Sinks Are Becoming Carbon Sources

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Cliff View Park, Alto Pass, Illinois

What is Latent Heat of Fusion?

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  Artwork from Ken Avidor

What Are The Most Popular Forms of Hopium?

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  Artwork by Ken Avidor

Why Do Today's Realities Escape Society?

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  Philpott Lake, Virginia, as seen from the Visitor Center of Philpott Dam

What Are GeoDestinies?

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  Lover's Leap Overlook, Virginia

Time for a Reality Check?

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  A turkey vulture flying over Yatesville Lake in Kentucky

How Did We Get Here?

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  The chairlift at Natural Tunnel State Park, Virginia

Why Do We Lack Agency and What Makes Humans Happy?

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  Viking Mountain Overlook, Tennessee

Solutions, Outcomes, and Unsustainable Systems

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  Lake Powhatan Swimming Beach, North Carolina

What Does Extinction Mean?

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  Trail at Bell Smith Springs in Southern Illinois

Bargaining to Maintain Civilization

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Happy Winter/Summer Solstice!! As anyone reading my articles often already knows, ecological overshoot is the master predicament causing many different symptom predicaments . I constantly see many people blaming emissions or greed or capitalism or governments or oil companies or fossil fuels (and on and on...) for causing climate change (or their favorite symptom predicament). Playing the blame game gets us nowhere though , and unfortunately, it is also far more complicated than that. Reducing emissions is a great idea (NOT a solution as noted below in the new paper from James Hansen), but it cannot be accomplished without reducing ecological overshoot because ecological overshoot is precisely what is CAUSING emissions. Ecological overshoot is caused by technology use , which means that it is being caused by our behavior . In order to reduce emissions, there is no other choice than to reduce technology use. This requires changing our behaviors. Most emissions historically have be...