Let’s start with why
Climate crisis has many things - that caused it, continuing to drive it, and many that can help manage it; such that it becomes incredibly difficult to see the big picture and how everything even connects to the crisis. ‘One Earth Letters’ series is an attempt to help paint this complex picture for you, with simple words.
How is it different?
Many conversations on the topic of the climate crisis are often but not always, either too technological with limited focus on nature or too nature-y with limited room for the technology-driven lives of today. If you feel this way too, the ‘One Earth Letters’ series is for you.
The letters explain the interconnectedness of how various aspects of your life (if applicable) are connected to the crisis but more importantly set the foundation for understanding how technology-driven lives can change *with* nature to effectively manage the climate crisis.
The author avoids being technical about both technology and nature as much as possible and rather focuses on how life is connected with both technology and nature, because most crucially and most simply, the climate crisis is about life. It is where the scientific approach of technology meets nature through the philosophy of life, explained with common sense and understandable by the reader’s own experiences in life.
Unfortunately, the climate crisis is driven by people that are continually distracted from seeing the interconnectedness. This means helping people understand the interconnectedness on their own terms is important. Each letter is a technically accurate deep dive into the topic but explained in simple words throughout such that it is a self-sufficient explanation by the end i.e. it requires only common sense and your own experiences to draw the conclusion about how it is connected to the climate crisis without depending on ‘expertise’ of others (including the author).
The scientific approach requires every step to be explainable before the next step builds on top of it, at all times through the letters, the author implores you to question if what is being discussed is true for you and if it feels like the right way, before continuing to read. Try explaining to yourself the disagreement without human constructs (like money, taxes, borders, etc.) as the reason for disagreement. If you find a self-sufficient explanation for disagreement, do add to the broader discussion (and hold onto it until it is addressed), but if you cannot explain it simply, the author insists you read on.
The philosophical approach only requires acknowledgment that others might have a different experience of life, and nonetheless would want everyone to experience life on their own terms too, without anybody limiting it for anybody else. Isn’t that what sustainability adds up to be [wiki]?
The ‘One Earth Letters’ series would have served its purpose when you comfortably understand the interconnectedness of your life with everything around you. To *feel* the interconnectedness during the climate crisis would be the next step - climate action.
We will always help find that next step; but first, let’s understand the interconnectedness. Shall we?
This is the first of the ‘One Earth Letters’, here’s a list of all the letters and topics to be expected in this series. If you liked this one, you might like others as well - start with a topic you are most curious about and let curiosity take it from there.