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WanderingEng  ·  2936 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene

I didn't read it the same way. My read wasn't that the author is calling for humanity to make any drastic changes in what we do. For example, he says:

    It won’t be addressed by buying a Prius, signing a treaty, or turning off the air-conditioning.

I interpreted the piece as arguing the worst of what to come has already happened, like how he came to accept he was going to die. There isn't anything we can do to avoid it, but we can take steps to make it less painful, to prepare for worse storms, for food shortages.





Devac  ·  2936 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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