Climate change reveals once and for all that humanity has no special dispensation to transcend its material conditions. The climate crisis is not only a difficult idea that our collective psyche must absorb, but also a hard limit, a wake-up call, a threat to our very life on this planet. Climate change requires us to keep two perspectives in mind at once: we must feel and accept the essential limits of the planetary system on which we entirely depend, and we must embrace our capacity to remake our collective fictions and thereby redistribute social and political power.
By Genevieve Guenther. Scientific American. December 19, 2019.
