Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 5, p. 148.
“Our brains are […] not equipped to process events on the geologic scale—at least in reference to how we choose to live, or what we choose to do in the here-and-now.”
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James Howard Kunstler
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The Long Emergency
Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 5, p. 148.
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