Listen to David reading this piece here:   This story began as one of my longform essays, which I started on our southern hemisphere Spring Equinox in September 2024. Over...

Read part one of this series here. Listen to David reading Part Two here:   Big-picture speculations about human futures in a world where ‘nature bats last’ were certainly part...

David Holmgren talks about the Ash Wednesday fires, home based lifestyles and the second wave of environmentalism

By the time leaders met in Kyoto in 1996, the community-led processes trumpeted at Rio had been replaced with market solutions managed by corporations.

From this perspective, and immersion in climate, I found the scientific communication and public policy discourse around climate change frustrating, and generally simplistic, in the conclusions reached.

Renewables remains joined at the hip with corporate-controlled mining, manufacturing and global logistics, allowing the middle class to believe they can consume their way to a zero carbon heaven.

David argues the benefits of practical, ground-level adaptation strategies that work with natural systems to tackle climate change, rather than attempting to maintain industrial civilization through technological solutions.

David states the case for a practical, adaptive approach to environmental management that prioritizes what actually works.

David Holmgren contends that while renewable energy gets most of the attention, biological solutions involving water, land and livestock may be equally powerful

David Holmgren's RetroSuburbia challenges growth-dependent systems by promoting household resilience, local production, and reduced participation in monetary economy

David has never shied from playing the Devil's advocate. He will always espouse practical solutions over ideological purity while maintaining his commitment to permaculture principles.

A lifelong dissident, David Holmgren sees bureaucracy as a huge roadblock to achieving grounded climate solutions.

The renewable energy transition faces substantial obstacles from geopolitics & resource constraints, while scientific debate about these issues is being suppressed.

David shares his views on rural resistance to renewables, EMRs and the shift in values of the Greens.

David believes that society needs radical transformation toward frugality and resilience- and solutions must come from grassroots sources, not governments

In this final chapter of the climate series, David Holmgren asks us to accept uncertainty and be open to divergent approaches.