The Guardian has an interview with sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson about his new book Galileo's Dream.
In Galileo's time, science was clashing with religion; today, Robinson believes, we're living in a "Galilean moment" again, in which climate change means science has become politicised. This time, though, the clash is with capitalism.
"There are cultural forces in our society which say, you can save the world or else you can make a profit, and they'll say sorry, we have to make a profit. So we have a strange religion now."
The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy
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This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler
When people debate the cost of fossil fuels versus renewables, the
conversation almost always ...
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