Biosphere & Climate

Picture a future where our planet thrives, with clean air, abundant green spaces, and diverse ecosystems.

Climate technology can provide innovative solutions to protect our environment and combat climate change. New innovations offer solutions like carbon capture, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture to create a thriving planet.

Learn all about climate technology by clicking the "Intro" node, understand potential risks by clicking the "Risks" node, discover the most hopeful scenarios by clicking the "Hope" node and find out how to get involved under "Action" node.

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Biosphere & Climate

Climate Change - FLI. Introductory post with link list. Forum/Blog-post
Deep Time Perspectives on Climate Change: How to Use the Paleoclimatic Record to Find Analogues and Solutions - Patrick Mellor. Long-form article on climate change, its causes, and large scale solutions. Article
Climate Technology Primer - Adam Marblestone. Three-piece long-form article on climate technology. Forum/Blog-post‍
Energy and Civilization - Vaclav Smil. On how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural societies through today. Academic paper

Storms of my Grandchildren - James Hansen. Starts with current events and paints a near to long-term picture of the potentially catastrophic implications of climate change. Sci-fi content
Dark Ecology - Timothy Morton. A history account and philosophical analysis of the human position in the biosphere. Book
Climate Change (Extreme Risks) - Roman Duda, Arden Koehler. On potentially extreme risks associated with climate change. Forum/Blog-post
Feeding Everyone: Solving the Food Crisis in Event of Global Catastrophes that Kill Crops or Obscure the Sun - David Denkenberger, Joshua Pearce. On solutions to global catastrophes obscuring the sun, such as volcanic eruption, nuclear winter, or abrupt climate change. Academic paper
Double Catastrophe: Intermittent Stratospheric Geoengineering Induced by Societal Collapse - Seth Baum. On geoengineering as a solution and as a risk to societal collapse. Forum/Blog-post
The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock. Positions humanity and human-induced climate change within the broader context of large-scale planetary changes. Book
Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson. On geo-engineering solutions to catastrophic climate change scenarios and their political implications. Sci-fi content
Flood - Stephen Baxter. On civilizational implications of rising sea levels. Sci-fi content
Blackout - Marc Ellsberg. Hard sci-fi on the potentially catastrophic implications of nation-wide energy blackouts. Sci-fi content‍
Dune Series - Frank Herbert. Sci-fi book series about a colony on a desert-ridden planet under dire conditions. Sci-fi content

Biosphere

The Power to Solve Climate Change - Liron. On what it means to “solve climate change”. Forum/Blog-post
Co2 Removal, Other Interventions - Adam Marblestone. Introduces various rather radical interventions to climate change, from aerosols to space mirrors. Forum/Blog-post
Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do - Kurzgesagt. Explainer video on the dangers of geoengineering and potential reasons for considering it. Video
Kelly Wanser on Whether to Deliberately Intervene in the Climate - 80000 Podcast. Podcast and transcript with link list on geoengineering. Audio
Creon’s Recommended List on Renewable Agriculture - Creon Levit. Link list on renewable agriculture. Forum/Blog-post
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Buckminster Fuller. On realizing humanity’s long-term potential with a focus on resource utilization and sustainability. Book
Our Carbon Removal Startup Wishlist - Ryan Orbuch. Highlights fundable carbon removal company ideas. Article
Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment – 80K. On why agricultural productivity is so important, how much better things could get, and how we could be the first generation to build a sustainable planet. Audio
Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson. On how an established ministry that advocates for the future sets out to fight against climate change. Sci-fi content‍
Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach. On a “stable-state” ecosystem that strikes the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Sci-fi content

Energy

The Future of Fusion Energy - Jason Parisi. On the science, mechanics, and politics of fusion energy. Book
Securing Fuel for Our Frigid Cosmic Future - Abraham Loeb. A long-termist argument for the importance of innovative fuel solutions. Academic paper
Could We Mine a Black Hole? - Adam Brown. On whether it’s possible to mine black holes and how an advanced civilization may possibly go about trying it. Academic paper‍
Potential Early Markets for Fusion Energy - Malcolm Handley. Analysis of which markets will be opened by fusion energy. Academic paper

Staying up to date

Project Drawdown - Long-from reports on different solutions to climate change.

Organizations and projects

Climate Careers - Search tool for climate jobs. Organizations/projects
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Global Climate Change - Climate Change tracker, including solutions. Organizations/projects

Earth Species Project - A non-profit dedicated to using artificial intelligence to decode non-human communication. Organizations/projects
Diamondlist - Published once per year, the Diamond List is a list of climate startups that have been nominated by qualified climate investors. Organizations/projects
YCombinator Carbon Removal Request for Startups - Accelerator requesting startups particularly targeted at carbon removal. Organizations/projects
UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) - Partners world-leading academics working on critical climate change issues. Organizations/projects
Climate Central - An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public. Organizations/projects
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change - Researches, communicates, and coordinates various climate initiatives. Organizations/projects
MIT Center for Global Change Science - Addresses fundamental questions about climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach and aims to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment. Organizations/projects