One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)

Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans.

It is difficult for humans to give up the unequal and yet accelerating pursuit of a good life based on an insatiable appetite for energy sourced mainly from fossil fuel.

But the same pursuit, scientists insist, damages the geobiological system that supports the existence of interrelated forms of life, including ours, on this planet.