From November 30 to December 11, delegates from across the world will gather at the Paris Climate Change Conference. Sponsored by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, conference representatives will endeavor—not for the first time—to find ways to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.”
On this episode of History Talk, three environmental historians, Sam White, John Brooke and Nicholas Breyfogle, discuss past patterns of climate change—both recent and others from the deep planetary past—and what these historical processes of climate adaptation and survival tell us about humanity’s prospects today.
*[This podcast was originally featured by Origins, a partner institution of Fair Observer.]
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