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About Eric Krasnauskas

Eric Krasnauskas lives near Boston where he runs the Science Pope website about climate change.

Bugging out from Boston to Vermont

By Eric Krasnauskas | September 15, 2014

My wife Sarah and I are moving to Vermont. I’ve been studying climate change and its interconnected problems for a year, and my research has brought me to the conclusion that a time of tremendous scarcity and uncertainty is upon us. So we've decided that it’s time to get started building a different, more resilient kind of life. When I first began understanding the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Bill McKibben, Boston, community organizing, Vermont

For the sake of the climate, just let go

By Eric Krasnauskas | August 30, 2013

remote controls

Ours is a world of increasing control. Control over our environment, our citizens, and the very building blocks of life. Culturally we learn to think of control as a good thing. Yet I put to you it is exactly this pursuit of control that creates most of the world's systemic problems, climate change included. That means at its root, climate change isn't a technological or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: disease, pesticides, play, systems theory

The high price of materialism

By Eric Krasnauskas | August 23, 2013

shopping carts

A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple. The carbon pollution spewing out of our power plants and tail pipes is a natural byproduct of the monstrous engine of economic growth we have built, an engine that exists solely to satisfy the demand our materialism creates. Indeed this demand is so great that if everyone in the world lived like Americans, we'd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: conumserism, happiness, overshoot, peak oil, video

The answer to climate change

By Eric Krasnauskas | August 12, 2013

this is climate change screen

When I give these climate talks, by the end people are typically agitated and full of questions. “What technology is going to fix this?” “How are we ever get people to agree on a solution?” “I’m just one person, what could I possibly do that would make an impact?” My answers often catch people a little off guard: I try to instill that more important than any technical fix is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: activism, consumerism, economic growth, open source software, psychology

The economy isn’t coming back

By Eric Krasnauskas | July 31, 2013

recession space

Presently Americans wait with bated breath, watching sales numbers and unemployment statistics, grasping for signs that an economic recovery is underway. We search for signals that indicate we’re growing, that there will be a job for everyone who wants one, and that the United States will resume the prosperity and standing in the world it once had. We wait in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: economic growth, land speculation, peak oil, Richard Heinberg, water

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