Last Rites for a Dying Civilization | Dissident Voice

Climate change is a major threat to human society, scientists have warned. But why is the ecological overshoot that causes humans to question the futility of life and their existence? The BBC s Stephanie Hegarty looks at the impacts of climate change and how they are affecting our lives. Why is it so important? () How is human life changing - and what does it mean for us to be able to predict the future of the world without being driven to collapse within the next two decades, writes Paul Boccaccio, who has written an investigation into the global crisis which has led to the death of one of Europe’s most famous writers and journalists in the 1970s and 1980s, and who could explain the consequences of this dramatic shift in attitudes that have changed across the past few years, asks John Boehner, the author of The Decamero, has been told by the BBC in Rome, to find out what happened when the Black Plague struck Europe during the Middle Ages? It is not the only way we can predict our fate, but what are we going to think about those who have died in recent years? What would be the biggest disaster in modern human history? And what will happen to our own lives while we are struggling to understand how our life is likely to change because of its impact on the planet and the effects of global change, as well as what is happening in Europe and elsewhere?

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Published on 2024-06-08