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A Pyrrhic Climate

September 4, 2018

A Pyrrhic Climate What does it mean to fight and win an impossible war? Battle of Chancellorsville, by Kurz and Allison, 1889 Arecent debate in twitter’s climate community illuminated a schism between those arguing that mitigating climate change is impossible and those exhorting others to continue to “fight” climate change. While the debate yielded no […]

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Crime of the 21st Century

August 4, 2018

Crime of the 21st Century Perpetrators of Apocalypse, or, The Seven Circles of Hell Gustave Doré Time to have a talk / it will not be fun / buckle up. Feel free to skip to the end at any point for pleasant pictures of adorable animals. You and I are witnessing the twenty-first century’s great […]

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Extinction vs. Collapse

May 2, 2018

Extinction vs. Collapse Does it Matter? Climate twitter – the most fun twitter – has recently been relitigating the debate between human extinction and mere civilizational collapse, between doom and gloom, despair and (kind of) hope. It was sparked by an interview in The Guardian with acclaimed scientist Mayer Hillman. He argues that we’re probably […]

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The Big Story

March 24, 2018

The Big Story Can We Change Civilization by Changing Its Origin Story? The Slave Market – Gustave Boulanger Public Domain How did humans go from savanna-dwelling primates to moon-bouncing Tide Pod™ eaters? This is the big question that Big History has been trying to answer for millennia. Sure, other ages may have framed the question […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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