A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, Climate change, and the human versus nonhuman.
In the narrative presented here, Chakrabarty continues to explore the temporal and intellectual fault lines that mark the collapse of the global and the planetary in human history..
Their worlds are Many and their politics still global rather than planetary.
The global sway of financial and extractive capital connects humans technologically, but they remain divided along multiple axes of inequality.
The planet, seen thus, is one.
But the same pursuit, scientists insist, damages the geobiological system that supports the existence of interrelated forms of life, including ours, on this planet.
It is difficult for humans to give up the unequal and yet accelerating pursuit of a good life based on an insatiable appetite for energy sourced mainly from fossil fuel.
Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans.
A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, Climate change, and the human versus nonhuman
