Guardian: Most historians think about the past. Some study the present. Very few, it has to be said, write about the future. But Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard professor in the history of science, believes that our inertia in the face of climate change will puzzle academics for centuries to come.
The historian of the future will look back on today and ask, what happened? Why didnt they act on what they knew? she says in her sunny office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, surrounded by rocks that speak of her own...