For only a very tiny sliver of that time, we’ve been organized in empires, doing this large-scale fucked up shit to the Earth and to each other. The vast majority of our wisdom, of our deep ecological knowledge, our ancestral wisdom, our ways of being in the world, is to care for each other in community. I have an exceedingly high level of certaint

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entailed, nor any of the other five mass extinction events. The sixth one, however, is happening while I am on the scene. I am participating in it by occasionally flying back to New York maybe once a year to see my family. I’m implicated in it. I’m vulnerable to it. It affects me in a way that the previous five extinction events don’t. But from the

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The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovatio

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Any news I might bring has already been brought. Thousands of scientific papers. Millions of newspaper column inches. Anyone who cares to pay attention already knows that we’ve broken Nature, and the world we know will soon end. This park, for one, is done for. This city I love, home to almost nine million, and one of humankind’s most extraordinary

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