How to Write About a Changing World
As the new ecological status quo emerges, we’ll all need to rethink our place on the planet: Your weekly guide to the best in books
For millennia, human society has been organized around the predictable march of the seasons: The weather has controlled what we eat, where we live, what we wear. But as the climate changes, the world we adapted to is being disrupted. Peter Frankopan tells the story of civilization through this lens, showing how people in the past responded to and were ruled by meteorological conditions. What the book ultimately reveals, Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote this week, is that “we’re as foolish and catastrophically inattentive as any society—or global collection of societies—before us.”
