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No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or printed without permission in writing from the publisher. If by the end you think that we’re onto the answers-well, I’m pretty sure you’ll figure out what we ought to do next.Įxcerpted from Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Copyright © 2013 by Alan Weisman. Now, you get to ask them for yourselves, as you follow my travels and inquiry. So I did, in more than twenty countries over two years. If such questions are arguably the most important in the world, whether or not the experts deem their answers impossible is irrelevant: we’d damned well better find them.
Journalists rarely claim depth in any field: our job is to seek people who dedicate their careers to study-or who actually live-whatever it is we’re investigating, and to ask them enough commonsense questions so the rest of us might understand. In that moment, I was glad not to be an expert. When he made that remark, we were lunching at one of the world’s oldest, most hallowed institutions of higher learning, where he was distinguished faculty. “But probably,” one of them added, “they’re impossible to answer.”
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