Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Oreskes and Conway: Days of Future Passed

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway strike again, with a wonderful and terrifying history of the recent past and near future as told from the far future, entitled "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future" in Daedalus.
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A key attribute of the period was that power did not reside in the hands of those who understood the climate system, but rather in political, economic, and social institutions that had a strong interest in maintaining the use of fossil fuels.

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