Not looking so tough against the climate crisis (Update #2)

Updates

  1. Originally published, February 25, 2021, 11:15 pm.
  2. February 26, 2021, 10:48 am:
    • It had taken much too long to write yesterday’s blog post entitled, “‘Us’ versus ‘them,’” and I needed to get out the door. This morning I made some modest revisions, including adding a footnote. This didn’t quite seem to merit marking as an update to the post so I instead changed the publication date, which changes the URL. I have revised it here.

There is a new blog post entitled, “‘Us’ versus ‘them.’” Something that’s worth noting here is that I had previously embraced the view of a number of authors that prehistoric humans had lived more in harmony with their environment and with each other than we do today.[1] I’m backing off from that some.[2]


Chimpanzees

Kyoto University, “Chimpanzees unite against a common enemy,” Phys.org, February 24, 2021, https://phys.org/news/2021-02-chimpanzees-common-enemy.html


Climate crisis

Chris Mooney and Andrew Freedman, “Scientists see stronger evidence of slowing Atlantic Ocean circulation, an ‘Achilles’ heel’ of the climate,” Washington Post, February 25, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/02/25/atlantic-ocean-currents-weakening-amoc-gulf-stream/


War crimes


  1. [1]John H. Bodley, Victims of Progress, 5th ed. (Lanham, MD, Altamira, 2008); William J. Burroughs, Climate Change in Prehistory (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University, 2008); Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995); Max Oelschlaeger, The Idea of Wilderness (New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1991).
  2. [2]David Benfell, “‘Us’ versus ‘them,’” Not Housebroken, February 26, 2021, https://disunitedstates.org/2021/02/26/us-versus-them/

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