Change Oracle

After decades of controlling public narratives with disinformation, the fossil fuel industry is presiding over critical talks to limit global warming.   As we teeter on the cusp of catastrophe, a petrostate is set to host this year’s conference of the parties, and an oil CEO is the president-delegate. Taking control...

Fossil fuels are at the center of the controversy surrounding the 2023 United Nations climate change conference known as COP28.   The precedent-setting host of this year’s UN Climate Conference of the Parties is an oil executive from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world’s seventh-largest oil producer. The president-designate for...

We are not living within planetary boundaries, and ecological economics (EE) has not been able to secure sufficient engagement from governments, civil society, and the private sector to alter our perilous trajectory.  We have not succeeded because we frame the issues with failed assumptions that prevent us from apprehending the interconnected ecological and humanitarian crises (Ingebrigtsen...

Environmental governance provides frameworks for the complex, multifaceted political, social, and economic actions required to address the polycrisis.  The urgency of the need for expedited action makes environmental governance more important than ever before. Although ongoing ecological degradation has made many understandably pessimistic, we have witnessed major progress in the realm of...

Planetary Boundaries We are in need of governance solutions to ecological crises that respect Planetary Boundaries. By re-embedding the economy into biophysical and social processes we can democratically promote degrowth that is both equitable and sustainable. We are faced with a growing ecological crisis, yet our anemic response fails to...