From Resurgence, the core component of the Transition movement is to develop a bottom-up, participatory process in order to build resilient communities in response to climate change and peak oil. Geoscientists have cut the Gordian knot of geologic timekeeping: The Quaternary Period wins out. Our influential Anthropocene period: What humanity does has important consequences, so we must manage our global life-support system. What would Jesus say about the approaching environmental "End Times"? Paul Ehrlich believes in provocation and speculation: If not for the provocateurs, would we pay attention? To save the environment we will need unprecedented action — and a lot of luck. Climate-change calculus: Why it's even worse than we feared. How much energy do we consume, and does it matter? You're not an environmentalist if you're also a NIMBY. Five experts discuss paying countries to keep forests intact and how to protect the people whose lives depend on trees. Sued by the forest: Should nature be able to take you to court? Change has come to the Arctic: Jess Worth visits an Alaskan village and finds lives being turned inexorably upside down. Floating apartment complex takes the worry out of rising seas.
