Luke Kemp: Civilisational collapse has a bright past – but a dark future
Is the collapse of a civilisation necessarily calamitous? The failure of the Egyptian Old Kingdom towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE was accompanied by riots, tomb-raids and even cannibalism.
May 22, 2019 · Leave a comment
Kyle Harper: How climate change and disease helped the fall of Rome
At some time or another, every historian of Rome has been asked to say where we are, today, on Rome’s cycle of decline. Historians might squirm at such attempts to … Continue reading
January 16, 2018 · 1 Comment
Margaret Klein Salamon: The Planet Is Warming. And It’s Okay to Be Afraid
Why being fearful can be part of a healthy, heroic response to the climate crisis. Last Week, David Wallace-Wells wrote a cover story for of New York Magazine, “The Uninhabitable … Continue reading
July 19, 2017 · Leave a comment
