How the Environment Topples Empires: On Kyle Harper’s “The Fate of Rome”
FOR YEARS NOW, psychologists have been warning that the human brain tells us the wrong stories about the state of the world. We are singularly ill-equipped to reckon with gradual, non-immediate, and unintentional threats such as climate change, fixating instead on immediate, tangible, and human-directed events. The discipline of history has necessarily conspired somewhat in […]
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