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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“When we are young, we drink our coffee with milk and sugar. And as we age, we drink it with milk only, then we drink it black, then we drink it decaf, then we die. Our next eater is at decaf.”
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Climate change is probably the biggest shared challenge facing twenty-first-century humans, and I fear future generations will judge us harshly for our failure to do much about it. They will likely learn in their history classes—correctly—that as a species, we knew carbon emissions were affecting the planet’s climate back in the 1970s. And they
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“Change,” Octavia Butler wrote, “is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe.”
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Sometimes, when I feel burnt out and exhausted and I don’t know what to do with myself or whether my work matters or if I’m ever going to do anything of use to anyone, I ask my publisher to send me ten or twenty thousand sheets of paper, and I sign them just to have something specific and measurable to do for a week or so. I don’t even know whether
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Faulkner line that the past isn’t dead; it’s not even past. One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The fact that our political, social, and economic systems are biased in favor of the already rich and the already powerful is the single greatest failure of the American democratic ideal.