Now that I’ve set the stage for what probably sounds like a supremely depressing dose of climate reality, I hope to infuse some optimism with the introduction of a new paradigm; a structure that thinks both top-down and bottom-up at the same time, for how we can reinvent our economic…

In a continuation from the Growth Imperative post, here I examine the precarious precipice of continued consumption — how the indefinite commodification of a planet with finite resources exposes us to inevitable long-term societal suffering. Attempting to unmoor the conversation from ideological or political beliefs, this thought piece is strictly…

Following the Token Economy post, I want to preface with the acknowledgement that I am not a technosolutionist, presupposing that blockchain, the broader Web3 ecosystem or frankly any technology could be a panacea for our climate crisis. But for the first time, I feel that we have tooling available to…

In this post, I am going to take a brief hiatus from the punishing onslaught of newsflashes about how fucked up we all are. This post presents an old model — the token economy — as it has recently been rebranded in Web3, leveraging all kinds of technological bells and…

Reader alert: this piece applies behavioural economics and systems thinking to diagnose the climate problem. It gets a little geeky. Ok if Harari is right, why can’t we seem to mobilize resources? Why are world leaders both in private and public sectors incapable of making the additional two-percent investment necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change? Haven’t they read the doomsday reports from…

This post is Part I of a VII part series analyzing the current status of climate change, through to its potential solutions. My beliefs on this topic are twofold: 1) we cannot possibly find solutions until we truly understand the problem. Indeed, a problem properly understood is half solved; and…

Shortly before the nadir of the downturn a few months back, I wrote a sharp-tongued post on what I now call “Act I” of the Web3 for Climate movement: CryptoCarbon. My objective was to illuminate what I identified as spurious practices, in an effort to protect both the integrity of…

Summary on the carbon position As a follow on to my previous article on the complexity of the carbon markets, I wanted to elaborate on the concern I see with the trending CryptoCarbon movement. Let’s first establish that carbon markets are complex, and cryptocurrency is complex. Meaning that CryptoCarbon is like, complex squared. …

Carbon offsets have an integrity problem. Environmental commodities theoretically representing one tonne of CO2 ‘abated‘ from the atmosphere, carbon offsets are, at their essence, indulgences for polluters to continue business-as-usual. These credits, ‘worth’ a tonne of carbon allegedly being removed or avoided from the atmosphere, are abstracted from their environmental…