Do You Know What You've Lost?

Do you know how much climate chaos is costing you, now?

This episode of When We Are is a quick exploration of how much loss is both a) already being incurred, and b) largely being ignored (or even being actively denied).

We can’t avoid future loss completely, but turning our attention to the ways we now face riskier, more brittle and less prosperous futures can help us make better decisions as climate chaos worsens.

If you’re interested in the topic, I’ve included some additional reading below.

Thanks for listening,

Alex

I wrote about the active denial of present risk in this newsletter:

Will your next home be a climate lemon?

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December 5, 2025

Climate chaos is going to strip a lot of value away from many communities. Some of that loss we can still defend against. Some we can help alleviate. But much is already both inevitable and irrecoverable. We collectively can neither prevent those losses nor make them whole. For most of us, the best we can do is try not to be in the most brittle…

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I wrote about the ways climate chaos is already undermining our economic prosperity in this essay:

I also wrote about the myriad ways in which the erosive effects of climate shifts — individually almost too slow or small to notice, but dire in aggregate — can wreak havoc on the systems we depend on for our prosperity:

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