It’s getting hot in here

Reflections of a climate hawk accepting the inevitable

Tom Rand

Tom Rand is an author, investor and co-founding partner at ArcTern Ventures. I’ve worked, written and invested to mitigate climate risk all my adult life. Despite cheerleading for action, my thinking long ago shifted from cautious optimism to a deep, thudding pessimism. From mitigation to resilience. Asked publicly, “Can we solve this problem?” my answer was always “Yes, if we try hard enough.” Privately, I’d say, “The climate genie’s out of the bottle. It’s about resilience now.” The recent onslaught of scary climate news triggered concern in the Washington Post about “climate doomers” – “a group of people [who] believe that the climate problem cannot, or will not, be solved in time to prevent all-out societal collapse.” Anticipating bad warming doesn’t imply climate doom-ism. Far from it. In being clear-eyed…

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Corporate Knights (Digital) - 1 Issue, Fall 2023

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