Die BBC hat mich um einen Gastbeitrag zum Thema Apokalypsen- und Klimaangst gebeten. Heute erschien mein Essay auf der BBC Wissenschaftsseite:
Has climate change become a stark catastrophist vision of global doom? Here, a social anthropologist argues that it is something to be managed, not scared of.
[...] On balance, therefore, I believe that the prophets of doom, including those predicting climate doom, are wrong.
Admittedly, there is no guarantee that we can avoid major mayhem and disruption during our risky transition to become a hyper-technological, type 1 civilisation.
Even so, societal evolution has now reached a level of complexity that renders the probability of human survival much higher than at any hitherto stage of history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7081804.stm