Volume 18, Issue 11/12, 2008
Philosophy of Nature Today
Teresa Kwiatkowska, William Forbes
Pages 133-149
“It Is Better to Light a Candle than Curse the Darkness”. Voices of Nature and Human Responses
In everyday life, people grasp mainly short term events of their natural surroundings, since our perception of broad and long term behavior of natural systems has been, and still is, rather limited. Throughout our history there are numerous cases of unheeded environmental warnings. This paper provides an overview of earlier era forewarnings, to illustrate how understanding of past responses to natural predicaments may help enhance future curriculum and policy discussions.