climate crisis

  • How a contract with the natural world can help us address the climate crisis

    How a contract with the natural world can help us address the climate crisis

    Since the publication of Michel Serres’s Le Contrat naturel (The Natural Contract) in 1990, the thesis that our social contract needs to be complemented and extended by a contract with the natural world has come in for sustained, and predictable, criticism. In this new mini-series of posts I want to clarify the natural contract idea,

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