David Christian’s Maps of Time displays an impressive knowledge of the sweep of human history and our place in the universe. [...] To the extent that Big History teaches that we are integral to the processes of nature, it could help reinforce the message expounded so passionately a century and a half ago by William Morris that human well-being cannot be divorced from the well-being of the natural environment.2 1 | GTI FORUM Promises and Perils of the Big V. [...] Philosophies of nature are almost bound to emphasize the structural regularities of nature and the way they impose themselves on human life, rather than the human capacity to alter the 2 | Big History and Great Transition | GTI FORUM conditions of life. [...] Focusing on the Task at Hand To deal with the current perfect storm of overlapping crises engulfing the world, we must do more than just survey the grand sweep of cosmic and human history. [...] It has been said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
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