That’s not really how we encounter lived history, but it’s often how it’s told history is usually written by the victors, and things typically get better for them, at least for a while.
We are hurtling into the future at a breakneck pace, only to be outrun by the distortions of nature we have unleashed by rampant extraction and consumption.Īll of this makes it harder (if not impossible) to believe in a Whiggish interpretation of history, in which life constantly improves. All of our fossil-fuel burning is accelerating or rewinding all kinds of natural phenomena, mixing geologic eras and warping the previously well-defined strata of Earth history. The last time there was this much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there were trees at the South Pole. Last year, ancient Roman ruins emerged from the Tiber as extreme drought parched the river, revealing history in the shallows.
SAVING TIME: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, by Jenny OdellĬlimate change is doing strange things to time.
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