Washington Post: Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Erik Conway is a historian of science and technology at the California Institute of Technology. They are the co-authors of The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future (Columbia University Press), from which this article is excerpted.
Its 2393. A historian is recounting the collapse of Western civilization due to catastrophic climate change. In her anniversary lecture, she explains how the carbon-combustion...