That plague theory is holding up.Īnd so the climate chasm between American cities and the federal government widens.
Even when we should know better, because we have more than abundant science to back it up, the Trump administration prepares to obliterate regulations controlling methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases. Supercharged rivers will wash away cities. Climate change will destroy not just our bodies, but our psyches. The thing about the human plague is that while it’s busy wrecking the planet, it’s also demolishing us. All noble pursuits in the name of spreading the human plague. Teachers hope toinspire the next great genius, maybe someone like Norman Borlaug, whose agricultural breakthroughs allowed our population to balloon on a planet with only so much arable land. Once you subscribe to that argument, it becomes nearly impossible to think of a noble pursuit for a person. You might even go so far as to suggest that the human species is a plague, given the untold destruction we’ve wrought on this planet. With record-breaking superstorms ravaging coastlines at a regular clip, it’s hard to feel good about the impact that Homo sapiens has had on our leafy, temperate, Goldilocks planet. The human mind isn’t equipped to parse a crisis-the greatest in the history of our species-of such complexity and urgency and darkness. Writing about climate change is an exercise in managed insanity.
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