AI has never had the experience of living a single human life. Yet we're asking it to help us make sense of the world, and to help us navigate it. 

Eighteen crucial years ago, William Ruddiman wrote in Adbusters: "The temperature rises. Water grows scarce. Animals vanish. The skies turn deadly. Our response so far: total inertia. Our fears have been eased by the assumption that we could, in a pinch, band together and turn things around if they start getting really bad."

Our civilization has unwittingly damaged the biosphere. But it is well within our scientific and economic capabilities to heal nature and to live alongside it.