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The future may be
unpredictable, but it is not unknowable. We can’t pinpoint where the next
raging forest fire or record temperature will hit. But we know they will
happen. This summer, cool Britannia is most unexpectedly busting the
thermometer. The fire this time is visiting a broad swath of Mediterranean
countries and, as usual, scorching California’s most treasured natural
landmarks.
This perennial
experience would suggest that our species should by now have reached what the
child psychologist Jean Piaget identified as the concrete operational stage of
cognitive development, which he assigned in his schema to 7-11-year-olds. It
would seem that the distant abstraction of climate change has enough
observational presence to be regarded by our maturing minds as a clear and
present danger, like touching a hot stove. (...)». Continue a ler.
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