The Great Forgetting
When we have no stories that describe the present and guide the future, hope evaporates.
George Monbiot • Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Currently, we are on pace to re-create—in a couple of centuries—climatic conditions that previously took millions of years to bring about. Such a cataclysmic rate of change will outrun most species’ ability to adapt, and a new equilibrium will be a long time coming. Whatever that new world looks like, it will be a lonelier place, inhabited by a rel
... See moreJohn Vaillant • Fire Weather
... See moreWe have never been able to document our lives so thoroughly as we now can with the help of digital tools, yet we feel that time is out of joint and that we've lost the thread of both our personal and collective histories. We appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we creat
“Memory produces hope in the same way that amnesia produces despair,”