Thursday, August 12, 2021

We're self-referential animals

There's a sort of silly trope -- which I am sure I've indulged in myself sometime -- which consists of saying that climate change means "WE HAVE TO SAVE THE PLANET." 

Nonsense. The planet will be fine as it heats up. Mitigating the consequences of carbon pollution is about preserving many, many contemporary species on the planet, most pertinently from our vantage point, the human one.

I thought about this when I glanced through

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