The Snap Forward

Climate futurist Alex Steffen helps you see the patterns beneath the chaos — and build new strategies for life in a time of planetary discontinuity.

By Alex Steffen

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THE NEW CLIMATE FORESIGHT

Strategy in an age of accelerating discontinuity: a briefing. Friday June 26th.

Jun 11•Alex Steffen

Too Successful to See How Much Trouble They’re In.

The growing number of people whose prosperity is more brittle than anyone wants to admit — and why our silence about it is making everything worse.

Apr 3•Alex Steffen

The Relocation Bottleneck and You

How the "climate squeeze" is making it harder to find a home that's relatively safe, and why the problem will almost certainly get worse.

Feb 8, 2024•Alex Steffen

Discontinuity is the Job

Aug 9, 2021•Alex Steffen

We’re not yet ready for what’s already happened

May 18, 2021•Alex Steffen

Old thinking will break your brain.

May 27, 2022•Alex Steffen

We all live in California, now.

Jan 11, 2022•Alex Steffen

This is how a bubble ends: not with a bang, but a discount.

Jul 16, 2024•Alex Steffen

Welcome to the future we fought for five decades to avoid.

Massive climate discontinuity means we no longer live in a world that can solve its most pressing problems in an orderly way.

Dec 3, 2025•Alex Steffen

THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDPARENTS' HEAT

Or your great³⁵⁰-grandparents' heat, either.

14 hrs ago

El Niño, Famines, Lost Cities, Mass-Migrations, and Brittle Achievers

What decades of climate foresight, well, foresaw is now the news.

May 27•Alex Steffen

Discontinuity is the Job

How climate discontinuity is changing what works.

May 26•Alex Steffen

Getting Your Bearings

The next Personal Climate Strategy: The Basics class is Thursday May 28th

May 22•Alex Steffen

Is Community an Answer to Brittleness?

Community is a vital connection layer, but is it a substitute for systems-level societal ruggedization?

May 18•Alex Steffen

Looking Ahead

This cohort of the Personal Climate Strategy Workshop is now full. A thank you message, and a sneak preview of coming offerings and newsletter topics.

Apr 13•Alex Steffen