Quietly Shape History

Seem Permanent Until They Aren’t

climate

ecology

ology (the study of)

archaeology

weather

is, along with other so-called small things such as nutrition, place, and recreation inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

These small things nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. Friedrich Nietzsche

is at once an enclosing notion and a disturbing figure, for it binds the human species together as a unity of destructive power.

Climate is at once an enclosing notion, imagined as the bounded milieu that is unavoidably ours, and a disturbing figure, for it is with the recognition that there is climate, or that the human species is now recognizable as a being that for all its seeming diversity is nevertheless bound into a unity of destructive power.

is at once our necessary, sustaining milieu and the web that holds us together in risked life.

It becomes possible to think of climate as the milieu that is necessary for our ongoing life, and as the fragile surface that holds us all together in one web of risked life, even if we cannot practically grasp or manage the dynamics of this totality (Gardiner 2006).

is the entire interconnected network of influences that together create an entire people's attitudes and values.

Climate is the entire interconnected network of influences that together create an entire people's attitudes and values. 'History and nature,' remarks Yuasa Yasuo, 'like man's mind and body, are in an inseparable relationship' (Yuasa 1996, 168). Culture is that mutuality of influence, recorded over eons of time past, which continues to effect the cultural present of a people. Who we are is not simply what we think, or what we choose as individuals in our aloneness, but is also the result of the climatic space into which we are born, live, love, and die.' (stanford encyclopedia)

is the general condition that binds humans to an irreversible and destructive time.

The fact that we start to think about climate as a general condition that binds humans to an irreversible and destructive time means both that climate becomes an indispensable concept for thinking about the new modes of knowledge and feeling that mark the twenty-first century in terms of our growing sense of precarious attachment to a fragile planet, and that climate is an alibi.

is what we expect while weather is what we get.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. Mark Twain

is distinguished from weather in that climate lasts all the time; while weather lasts only a few days.

CLIMATE AND WEATHER Climate lasts all the time; weather lasts only a few days.

is what you expect, but weather is what you get.

Climate is what you expect, but weather is what you get.

climate, n.All

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