When Trees No Longer Milk the Sky with Rob Lewis | Sunday Sessions no.3 – YouTube (40-minute sampler)

[As I was told – IIRC by Aidan Ward (https://medium.com/@aidanward), the original Club of Rome modelling work included the water cycle (and more), but that was stripped out in terms of accessibility and a ‘simpler model’ and metric]

Dougald Hine

8 Apr 2024

Five years ago, Rob Lewis stumbled on a part of the story of climate science that he had never heard about: the impact of “land change” and the role of ecosystems as active co-creators of climate, rather than passive victims of changes in the atmosphere. In this conversation, we trace the story of how this side of the story of a changing climate was eclipsed by a focus on CO2 and other industrial emissions – and we ask how this changes the binary of doom vs techno-optimism that mostly frames the public debate and the discussions within the environmental movement over climate change. Check out Rob’s work: — The Climate According to Life on Substack: https://theclimateaccordingtolife.sub… — Putting the Land Back in Climate at Resilience.org: https://www.resilience.org/stories/20… — The Silence of Vanishing Things – more of Rob’s poetry – https://www.thesilenceofvanishingthin… To watch the full recording, including Q&A, you’ll need a paid subscription to Writing Home (which is also your ticket to join us for fortnightly live sessions on Zoom): https://dougald.substack.com/subscribe Meanwhile, you can watch the first forty minutes here on YouTube.