Carl Sagan once said: “We’ve arranged a global civilisation in which most crucial elements ... profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
And it has blown up. Our planet is in crisis, yet decades of scientific warnings have been ignored. Powerful interests like those of the fossil fuel industry and industrial agriculture have distorted ...
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