Foothills of Catastrophe

There is a worrying heat wave in Europe. Hugh Montgomery, professor of intensive care medicine at University College London, says, “This isn’t the new norm at all; this is the foothills of absolute catastrophe.” Unfortunately, I think he is quite right. OBSERVATION: And yet, I think that our approach to this problem is still reactive. We don't yet have the understanding to correct it on this or that philosophical principle.

POSTSCRIPT: The "father of environmental ethics", Holmes Rolston III, rightly saw that "the epistemic crisis is as troubling as the environmental crisis, and one must be fixed before the other can."