# Climate Crisis Part 1: Reading

By [Continuations](https://continuations.com) · 2019-07-29

climate crisis

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I no longer say “climate change” – instead I now call it what it is, the “climate crisis.”  If you don’t think it is a crisis, I recommend the following readings.

[http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf](http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf)  
[https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252](https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252)  

Both papers – in very different ways – make the same argument: we are on a runaway trajectory now. We are already in a crisis that renders nearly everything else a rounding error. If left unchecked, the climate crisis will rapidly destroy the underpinnings of modern civilization.

I am keeping this post intentionally short. Go read the papers instead. More later this week.

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*Originally published on [Continuations](https://continuations.com/climate-crisis-part-1-reading)*