Climate Change Makes Me Anxious
Aug 31, 2018 · 8 min read
This essay was originally published in Oasis as part of a topical issue on anxiety in late capitalism.
I want to understand why societies organize themselves the way they do, and how we can use this understanding to build better societies. It was quite by accident that I learned how coupled oceanic and atmospheric physics work in concert with our planet’s orientation and rotation around our sun to create our climate, and how different mixtures of gases in our atmosphere could tweak those physics. However, I soon realized that climate change provides an obvious lense with…
