When Nature Teaches Us How To Be Human
As global warming changes the planet, we will experience many severe weather events. How we fare will depend largely on how well we preserve our best qualities — and community, says Marcelo Gleiser.
by Marcelo Gleiser
Aug 30, 2017
2 minutes
Hurricane Harvey is a devastating reminder of how helpless we are when facing nature's human-dwarfing powers.
We dig holes and barricades, build dams and create ingenious systems of canals and levees. We try to pull the brakes on natural forces, or at least tame them. These measures protect us, and we surely would be worse off without them. We have come a long way
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