At Work In The Ruins

Summary

Writer Dougald Hine on why “Climate change asks us questions that climate science cannot answer”, starting with how we ended up here. When science becomes an authority to believe in, those questions get harder to ask, and “taking climate change seriously” can justify managing the planet as an object. Which leaves us needing “other paths worth taking.”

Rationale

Hine sees climate change as “an especially alarming symptom of an underlying condition”. A touchstone for us: we look for that condition in dispositions shaping how people meet every issue.