Breaking the Climate Doom Loop: Can Instability Inspire Action?
What if the greatest threat to solving climate change isn’t science denial but geopolitics and inflation?
Climate change and geopolitics are caught in a vicious cycle, a “doom loop” where instability in one accelerates failures in the other. Events such as the climate-fueled inflation impacting U.S. politics and the stalled progress at COP29 highlight how these forces undermine global climate action.
From droughts crippling food supply chains to nations drowning in climate-driven debt, the ripple effects are real and escalating.
- Extreme weather is driving global inflation and reducing labor productivity.
- “Climate-debt doom loops” trap vulnerable nations in perpetual recovery mode.
- Political instability fueled by climate shocks undermines long-term strategies.
This isn’t a call to despair. History shows crises can also drive transformative change. But will our current instability spark virtuous cycles or push us further into derailment?
Read the full article on The Conversation.
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