From Inside the Widening Gyre

Title adapted from the first line in the poem, "The Second Coming," by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. It refers to a diagram, received in a vision, composed of two conic helixes ("gyres"), one inside the other. Yeats claimed this image captured the contrary motions inherent in world history (dialectics?). He believed in 1921 that the world was on the threshold of an apocalyptic moment, as history reached the end of the outer gyre and began moving along the inner gyre...

17 August 2011

Climate Change: the Most Urgent Challenge We Face

Please take time to watch the following excellent video that summarizes the near-future danger we all face because of global warming, by one of the great moral environmentalists of our time:

Bill McKibben: Why Climate Change is the Most Urgent Challenge We Face