We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here.

Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a really important philosopher for all I know. I've never been able to read him.

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised by the behavior of Google, a corporation that notionally (until recently anyway) espoused the slogan "don't be evil" and then runs over individual people and even entire nations in the pursuit of profit.