![]() Yet as rewned environmental journalist Dianne Dumaski shows, little has been done to avert the crisis or to prepare human societies for a time of growing instability. The guiding values of modern culture have become dangerously obsolete in this new era. ![]() The question is longer simply how can we stop climate change, but how can we as a civilization survive it. ![]() Contrary to the pervasive belief that climate change will be a gradual escalator ride into balmier temperatures, the Earth's climate system has a history of radical shifts-dramatic shocks that could lead to the collapse of social and ecomic systems. The greatest danger is t extreme yet discrete weather events, such as Hurricane Katrina or the calamitous wildfires that w plague California, but profound and systemic disruptions on a global scale. Climate change is already bearing down, hitting harder and faster than expected. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is w disrupting our planet's very metabolism our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. ![]() But this long benign summer is an amaly in the Earth's history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. ![]() For the past twelve thousand years, Earth's stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. ![]()
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