Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity – Kosmos Journal

Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity

By Alnoor Ladha

The Collapse of Western Civilization
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Columbia University Press, 2014

Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love
Dieter Duhm
Verlag Meiga Press, 2015

Two recent books provide striking contrasts in their modality of intervention.

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