We need to think deeply about it, and act with resolve, if we’re to have any hope of not rending both our ecological and civilizational fabric in permanent ways. This exodus has not only begun, it’s begun to overwhelm biological and political stability. The rapid rise in temperature is causing plant and animal species, and people, to move toward the poles and higher, cooler ground. The pace is truly savage.īut that experiment in time is playing out even more dramatically across physical space. Astonishing shifts in precipitation, forest fires, sea level, and many other systems are happening month by month and season by season. In a geological instant we’ve raised the annual global average temperature one degree Celsius, and the second degree will come faster still on our current course we’re headed toward a third degree. By burning the remains of hundreds of millions of years of flora and fauna in the course of a few decades, we’re forcing the planet through changes that usually take eons deep time is suddenly running like one of those films of a flower opening in seconds. The climate crisis can be understood as an experiment in pace.
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