Cogs in the climate machine

A short course in planetary time, for planetary survival

Julia Steinberger
Climate Conscious
Published in
10 min readJul 10, 2020

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This is less of a blog post, and more of a howl.

The planetary climate clock, in human time

Let’s start by some human and planetary timescales. I don’t know why we don’t learn them in grade school (I never learned them at all). But they matter. And let’s represent them visually, in a stark, plain way.

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Julia Steinberger
Climate Conscious

Immigrant, Swiss-American-UK ecological economist at the University of Lausanne. Research focus on living well within planetary limits. Opinions my own.