Whatever you do, don’t think of my latest post as counter-programming to the Super Bowl -- even the end of the world would fail against that. Consider it instead a piece for your post-game Monday morning recaps; this being a look back at why climate change and before it the nuclear issue fit so poorly with our idea of “the news” and why, raising as they do, the possibility of the end of history, they are so difficult for us to take into our everyday lives and respond to as we should. After all, they represent the greatest, if also grimmest, acts of secularization in history. From 1945 on, at least prospectively, we could do what only God had previously been imagined capable of: create an End Time on this planet. This is not, however, a piece grounded in hopelessness. Because climate change is a distinctly human-caused problem, there is a human solution to it. I think this post represents something a little different from TomDispatch and hope you’ll give it your attention. tomdispatch/blog/175801/
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:09:52 +0000