Living in the Time of Dying

My interview with Michael Shaw

Jan 1, 2023

On December 1 last year, I had the pleasure of talking to independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, creator of Living in the Time of Dying. Watching the movie is an hour well spent.

The starting point was my post “COP is a planned failure” and why humanity has failed to respond to what increasingly looks like the collapse of the entire global ecosystem.

Global Climate Compensation

COP is a Planned Failure

One of the things I learned when working for the engineering company ABB was that many projects fail by design. They start from a rudimentary and slightly naïve understanding of the task at hand and stick to the original project plan long after it has become obvious that it will never work. The problem is that most of the people on the project are satis…

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We also discussed why fossil fuels are like the magic rings of power and whether Global Climate Compensation could work. The full interview can be found here:

Let’s act as if the survival of the only habitable planet in the known universe matters in 2023.