Sunday, March 12, 2006

Willed Ignorance

"The thing they couldn't prepare for was the same thing that we won't prepare for, because in their case they didn't know about it and because in our case the political system can't listen to it."

Peter deMenocal, expert on climate history, talking about climate changes overtaking civilizations, quoted in one of two new books on the Climate Crisis, reviewed by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times.

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