Australia is on track for its warmest ever year, says study [The Guardian]
Climate Change May Magnify Toxic Chemical Dangers [Huffington Post]
China eyes Antarctica’s resource bounty [The Guardian]
California on course for driest year on record [SFGate]
South Florida Faces Ominous Prospects From Rising Waters [NY Times]
Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies [NY Times]
How Climate Change Will Affect You [The Onion] Satire.
Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene [NY Times]
Many thinkers, including Cicero, Montaigne, Karl Jaspers, and The Stone’s own Simon Critchley, have argued that studying philosophy is learning how to die. If that’s true, then we have entered humanity’s most philosophical age — for this is precisely the problem of the Anthropocene. The rub is that now we have to learn how to die not as individuals, but as a civilization.
