Our Demon Haunted Politics

I enjoy reading the wealth of intelligently written articles here on Medium, I truly do. But on occasion, I come away thinking that we are all captured by our limited perspective. The one true thing I know about life is that we never know enough in time to avoid mistaken thinking and conclusions.

Take for example the common belief that climate change represents inevitable disaster. Yes, it does, kinda. That’s because the Earth’s climate has been involved in 100% of species extinctions. Extinctions happen in clusters but they also happen sporadically over time. We know of five major…