MAKING THE EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY
By David Harris
Thanks to decades of our own chemical emissions, the climate with which humans have become familiar over hundreds of centuries will soon shift under our feet, the physical premises of civilization will destabilize, and the setting we have long assumed for our species will erode at an accelerating rate. There will be a lot less of what we need, and a lot more of what we don’t. Our surroundings will become harsher than most of us have previously known and our margins for error will evaporate. [Read more…]