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At first look this may seem like yet another book about climate change and the ecological crisis. Given that there are quite a few books out there already, I asked myself whether there was any point in me writing anything at a time when the planet needs us to talk less, and do more. Part of me felt that yet another author is the last thing the world needs right now. But I was wrong.As I began to blog about climate change, in my attempt to deal with my own feelings of hopelessness, fear, anger, guilt, rage, grief and confusion, I realised just how overwhelmed I was. And as a biologist, it dawned on me that humans were not simply in danger of going extinct: in technical terms, they already have. We are using obsolete survival methods in a world that has changed, that ironically, we changed. This was my own existential crisis. This book looks beyond climate change and casts its eye much deeper inside our malfunctioning mind, as well as into the future. Climate change is, after all, only a symptom of humanity's core existential crisis. We are about to embark on a painful journey that will test the very limits of our intelligence. It will be a journey that will make us question everything that we thought we knew about our meaning and purpose on Earth. Because our societies, our economies, our political structures and our daily life were all based on a grand delusion of plenty. The Age of Separateness is a collection of blogs and poems. It is an outpour from a scientist and a human. Yet through this chaotic emotional cocktail that climate change has induced, new humans could emerge. Will they emerge fast enough to avert total catastrophe?

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