Alex Steffen

Writing and workshops on climate foresight and personal climate strategy.
Courses:

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Are you trying to chart a course through the growing climate chaos around us?

I lead a Personal Climate Strategy Workshop to help people make better decisions in the face of escalating uncertainties.

The New York Times covers it here:

https://t.co/TOTS3sUlV4

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

The past is becoming a foreign language

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Orwell's most brilliant observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that reducing a person's vocabulary also reduces his capacity to think.

Reading old or difficult literature will unleash the full potential of your mind.

Great video 👇

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Where We Aren't:

"The one thing these narratives all have in common is that they will not come true; even the inventions they imagined are physically realized, they will not mean what they meant in these stories."

https://t.co/xDhHdTNEO0

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Tonight Donald Trump will confirm he is the gravest threat to our democracy.

This isn’t the rule of law — it’s the Rule of Don.

Do NOT bow to this mad king.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Ukraine is in Europe.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Yes.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

As thousands of wildland firefighters across the Nation come off the line this evening, eat a plate of food, and climb into their sleeping bag overlooking the fire they just burned 5,000 calories on, they know it will take more than a day to stop that thing.

From the bug filled Black Spruce swamps in Alaska, to the unforgiving timbered terrain of the Gila, the Sage brush fires in the Basin that go on for miles, across the deciduous fires out east, to the steeps of Colorado, into the tall trees of the Pacific Northwest, the WUI of California, and the sheep county in the Northern Rockies…. the work takes more than a day.

So, while today is National Wildland Firefighter Day, tomorrow is too. Because at 05:00, that very same sleeping bag the firefighter climbed into, will start to stir again. Boots tied tight, nicotine and caffine binge begins, and a hike back into the very same fire that provided a night light on the mountain top.

It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. And because it’s a marathon, you need to have people motivating and cheering for you for all 26 miles. Even when you vomit halfway through, or you’re bleeding from chaffing, those that watch from the bottom of the mountain are with you day by day. That’s how you make it to the finish line. Stay strong, stay savage, and stay together.

Happy National Wildland Firefighter Day.

[Tom Ashbrook @TomAshbrook]

Yes, I do. 🇺🇸 Like millions of others. https://t.co/g8oYXyhZY1

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

@paulg Oh no.
I hadn't heard.
I hadn't spoken with him in fifteen? years, but he was indeed one of the good ones.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

The New Climate Foresight — a briefing.

Tomorrow!

https://t.co/imjuz4hukR

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

The climate emergency is not an issue, it's an era.

It's when we live.

#ClimateChange #ClimateStrike

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Just a reminder that the narrative trope of sentient robots evolving and deserving human rights is so old it predates sound in movies.

It is very tired.

https://t.co/TKmYAJUD2v.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Climate foresight—how we understand and strategize for a future increasingly defined by climate crisis—is in upheaval.

What's next? I've developed a set of theses that I find useful and compelling.

I'm offering an overview briefing on 6/26.

https://t.co/EytHEqVET5

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.

Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Gordon S. Wood was a remarkable historian, who deserves to be more widely read, even now.

The Radicalism of the American Revolution remains a landmark book.

[Brown University @BrownUniversity]

For nearly 40 years at Brown, Gordon S. Wood helped shape the study of early American history through his teaching, mentorship and award-winning scholarship.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian leaves an extraordinary legacy at Brown and far beyond, influencing generations of students, scholars and readers.

https://t.co/496zDVNt6k

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

This summer, millions of families will be shopping for new homes.

Try not to buy one whose future has already been foreclosed.

https://t.co/Vzz4CGYbna

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

This summer, millions of families will be shopping for new homes.

Try not to buy one whose future has already been foreclosed.

https://t.co/Vzz4CGYbna

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

Guy whose job is to make you believe revenue will explode believes revenue will explode

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The whole point is that he is unqualified and will make us less safe. This isn’t a glitch. It’s the design. The US is to bend to its rivals abroad and collapse from within. For this he is the right guy!
https://t.co/76hGh4lbnA

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*