When considering the environment’s future, it’s tempting to see it in terms of evolving technology solving all our problems. However, while technology may change, human nature does not. As long as humans impact the environment, considerations of regulating environmental risk need to factor in the complexity and character of human nature. To protect the future, we need to draw from the past, specifically the thinking of those committed to understanding humankind’s fractious relationship with the world.
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