What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human


"The crisis requires us to face hard limits set by nature while also reimagining the stories we tell ourselves

Freud once said that the two great blows to humanity's self-image were Copernicus' insight that the Earth orbits the sun, which displaced us from the center of the universe, and Darwin's recognition that we are animals created by evolution. If these two discoveries undermined our collective sense of superiority, their significance pales in comparison to the traumatic shock of climate change. Climate change reveals once and for all that humanity has no special dispensation to transcend its material conditions." ～ Genevieve Guenther @ScientificAmerican
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