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We’ve got narratives for everything. How we deal with war, with sickness, with other (intelligent) species. All of this are things we wrote about a thousand times, had different ideas, different moral ways of dealing with those situations. We – as a society, and as a species – talked about those ideas, about those books and articles, and, as a society we managed to decide which of those narratives are “right” and “wrong; which ones might work out, might happen, and which ones should definitely be avoided. Those are crises that humanity has already thought through. Some for good reason (war and sickness), some just because we are interested in the novelty of it. But when we get hit by a crisis that doesn’t fit in those schematics (fighting against other humans, against a threat nature is throwing at us, or against “the other”), our narratives fail. Nowhere is this more apparent than in how we deal with the climate crisis, THE crisis that we – as a species – are going to spend ...