summary

• good q uick opening paragraphs that summarize the plethora of extreme events in 2023 up to Sept 2023 (but misses the Canadian Wildfires) and also the list of potential planetary tipping points that are giving indication of being at the threshold.
• He makes a good point about the conservative nature of science that underestimates impacts due to the inertia of scientific study.
• Coins a good meme
  • Everything, everywhere, all at once
• He ties all the various crisis together to show the many components of the wicked problem we face
• finally what it comes down to is that we cannot stop the coming unprecedented changes but we can and must slow it down as much as possible and we should be prepared for a wild ride

comment

• It would be a good educational tool for deep and transformative climate education to map all these elements of the polycrisis and show their feedbacks and interactions, especially how it relates to socio-economic impacts to motivate transformative change and mobilize the urgency now required.

• ‘Out of time’: Temperature records topple around the world

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/30/out-of-time-temperature-records-topple-around-the-world