“With climate change, a pressing issue concerns scale. Of course, there is the vast scale of the problem. Scale however is also an issue in a related but different sense – not in terms of gravity, but rather perspective. What is the right scale, from the planetary to the personal, from the political to the ethical, with which to grapple with the problem? For historians, scale is a prerequisite of story telling. Nothing can be about everything all at once. In these essays for the Center for History and Economics on the general theme of “climate change and loss,” I want to focus upon one city, Houston, Texas.” – Jonathan Levy
Read the full set of essays here.
