Heated Debate

By Peter Furtado | Published in History Today Volume: 57 Issue: 7 2007

With talk of climate change suddenly ubiquitous, we are all having to acquire a basic familiarity with a whole range of disciplines – including chemistry, physics, meteorology, climatology, mineralogy, engineering and economics – that may not all come so easily to readers of this magazine as biography or even palaeography.

With an understanding of the interaction between our own lives – on every level from individual to governmental and international – and climate issues now arguably the most urgent matter facing us, it’s worth asking ourselves what a knowledge of history might contribute to the looming crisis.

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Heated Debate

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