I particularly appreciate Schulz’s concluding observation that stories about apocalyptic weather disasters are, in one sense, escapist: they give one the illusion of control without one having to do anything. That’s how the stories of an angry Poseidon also work. Back then, however, there really was little one could do.
We, on the other hand, can take dramatic steps to reduce the threat of climate change. The challenge, as Schulz points out, is not to fatalistically accept what is happening but rather to figure out what to do next …
Except that means turning out didactic literature, which is necessarily tendentious, and often dull. And actually, there is nothing to be done about "climate change" short of doing away with climate, the nature which is change, since it is governed by a non-linear dynamic. It is a chaotic system.
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