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...

23 October 2011

The Literature of Climate Change

Well, it's been awhile hasn't it? It seems like I'm saving this blog for my really important posts. I recently "published" an article about climate change online at the Britannica Blog. It's about a few books I wish to recommend that I have read in the past few years on the subjects of global warming and climate change. Here's the link.

Hope you like it (if you care to read it, that is)...