Climate Change: Historians Will Look Back and Ask ‘why Didn’t They Act?’

By Garry Rogers @Garry_Rogers

Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes talks about her new book, which imagines that current inertia in the face of climate change will puzzle academics for centuries to come

GR: Academics will be working on the explanation for centuries, but I doubt that the basic human weaknesses that lead to such a catastrophe will be a mystery to them. 

The same title could be applied to other subjects:  Extinction:  ‘why didn’t they act?

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