«Noema recently published the two winners of the first annual Berggruen Prize Essay Competition. Together, they capture dissonance within ecological consciousness as the climate crisis intensifies»

 

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«(...)One essay by the Vancouver-based writer Pamela Swanigan scores the false hope that a return to the kind of natural wisdom associated with premodern Indigenous peoples can save the planet from the “world destroyers” of the techno-industrial Anthropocene age. Such extreme hope is, for her, only a mirror image of our species’ incapacity to imagine the scale and scope of climate calamity inexorably coming our way. Rather than abide by what she calls “the default trope-of-hope,” she argues that nothing more is possible at this irreversible point in time than making the most of “the long defeat” ahead.

The other essay, by astrophysicist Adam Frank, argues quite the opposite — that, as the Anthropocene technosphere matures into a complex feedback system that mimics and coevolves with the self-regulating biosphere, a new conjoined planetary intelligence will emerge that can sustain the homeostatic equilibrium of Earth into the millennial future. (...)».