By Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
The 12 months is 2393, and a senior pupil of the second one People's Republic of China provides a gripping and deeply traumatic account of ways the kids of the Enlightenment, the political and monetary elites of the so-called complicated commercial societies, entered right into a Penumbral interval within the early a long time of the twenty-first century, a time while sound technological know-how and rational discourse approximately international switch have been prohibited and transparent warnings of weather disaster have been overlooked. What ensues while hovering temperatures, emerging sea degrees, drought, and mass migrations disrupt the worldwide governmental and fiscal regimes? the good cave in of 2093.
This paintings is a vital identify that may swap how readers examine the area. Dramatizing weather swap in methods conventional nonfiction can't, this artistic, now and then funny paintings reasserts the significance of scientists and the paintings they do and divulges the self-serving pursuits of the so referred to as "carbon business complex" that experience became the perform of sound technological know-how into political fodder. The authors finish with a critique of the philosophical frameworks, such a lot particularly neo-liberalism, that do their half to hasten civilization's demise.
Based on sound scholarship but unafraid to tilt at sacred cows in either technology and coverage, this ebook offers a welcome second of readability amid the cacophony of weather swap literature. It features a lexicon of ancient and clinical phrases that enriches the narrative and an interview with the authors.
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See Pliny, Letters and Panegyricus in 22 Of the Nature of revealed Religion. of the nature and qualification of religion §8. But the Condition of Mankind being such, That it was impossible by the sole help of Natural Religion, to attain to that Felicity which was proposed by the great Creator; it had pleased the Great and Allwise God, to reveal unto us Mortals his Will; and to instruct us by what means we may obtain his Favour, and how he expects to be Worshipped by us. It is for this reason, that no body of a right Understanding ought to make the least Scruple, but, that all such Matters as God has revealed to us, in a manner surpassing our Natural Understanding, ought to be reverenced by Mankind, and to be received with a general consent and submission.
But, no body can so entirely transfer the Care of his Soul, and the Exercise of Religious Worship from himself to another Man, as to make him alone Accountable for all Miscarriages, and to free himself from Punishment. 7 And it is in vain for St. 8 And, though it is undeniable, That those who have been negligent in taking care of other Peoples Souls, that were 7. Rom. 14:12. 8. Rom. 9:3. Every Man is accountable for his Religion. 14 of the nature and qualification of religion committed to their Charge, shall receive Punishment; Nevertheless, these, whose Souls have been thus neglected, shall perish with them, for having put too much Trust in others, and neglected their own Salvation.
51. Athenagoras was a Christian apologist from Athens. In c. a . d . 177 he addressed a “message” to the Emperors Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus in which he defended Christians against charges of atheism, cannibalism, and sexual deviance (A Plea for the Christians). See note 187, below. [SZu] 36 of the nature and qualification of religion no more, than it is necessary, to set up a separate Commonwealth, where Philosophy and other Sciences are to be taught. For, it is the true Genius of Truth, and such her intrinsick vertue, as to be convincing in it self, provided she be but represented in her genuine Shape; and the fruits, which she produces for the benefit of Mankind, be dexterously proposed to the view of the World.