Hi Steve,

Great to hear from you. A lot of good stuff here. I did read that DWW piece when it came out, and like some people it rubbed the wrong way, I thought it was a master class in equivocation.

But to be fair, I don't always have the same line on climate change and vacillate slightly in my POV. As Richard Linklater said, "We give ourselves lots of leeway but expect consistency from other people."

I also think DWW really captures it (in his book) when he calls out this growing "metanarrative" around climate change -- the uncertainty of it all. Lest we take scientific uncertainty for an excuse the to throw the whole thing out, though, which of course some people still do.

I don't necessarily think we'll become hunter-gatherers again, but if we did, it wouldn't necessarily be a "devolution." It's so complex, it's tough to say what we would still have access to, technologically to epistemologically, in a thousand years, or even a hundred years.

As my mother has reminded me more than once, though, the future is being created right now. It's fun to wonder about the future and we need to model and make predictions, but it seems we're doing very little besides observing and predicting and chronicling, with no real plans to stave off the worst of what's to come.