MB Civic

The following quote is from Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune. Note that it was written in 1975 – even prior to Jimmy Carter adding solar panels to the White House.

“Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuations of annual weather, and occasionally may observe such things as “This is a colder year than I’ve ever known.” Such things are sensible. But humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of years. And it is precisely in this alerting that humans learn how to survive. They must learn climate.”