I’ve spent a lot of time this year thinking about how we relate to the climate crisis as individuals. It’s such an overwhelming, global problem, and each of us has to pick a way to contribute to solving it. Do we focus on scalability? Or do we each make our own choices and hope that it adds up to meaningful change?
Matt, yours is a beautiful piece of writing. I'm starting to read Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy, which delves into eastern religion's belief of God in persons and in the universe.
We have opposite beliefs about the climate emergency. I am guided by Spinoza's quote "The truth about things isn't changed by how many disagree with it," and Descartes, "Truth by itself is so little respected." Recall the eugenics movement thrived upon a "scientific consensus" in the 1920s, which allowed Princeton to excuse Woodrow Wilson of his blatant administrative segregation in naming the International Studies building.
Matt, yours is a beautiful piece of writing. I'm starting to read Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy, which delves into eastern religion's belief of God in persons and in the universe.
We have opposite beliefs about the climate emergency. I am guided by Spinoza's quote "The truth about things isn't changed by how many disagree with it," and Descartes, "Truth by itself is so little respected." Recall the eugenics movement thrived upon a "scientific consensus" in the 1920s, which allowed Princeton to excuse Woodrow Wilson of his blatant administrative segregation in naming the International Studies building.