Wikipedia says:
Apocalypse (Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις Apokálypsis; “lifting of the veil”) is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used to refer to the end of the world, which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton which literally means “revelation at the end of the æon, or age”.
I did not know that. But this revelation at the end of an age is becoming more and more concrete as we go through this relatively inconsequential economic re-ordering. Yes, Obama has a shitload of immediate crises to deal with, but how do we wrap our minds and behavior around the 8-trillion pound gorilla that is climate change?
This Friday I’ll be attending a presentation sponsored by the Long Now Foundation featuring noted inventor Saul Griffith, who has been focusing his considerable intelligence and experience on establishing the gravity of the threat that climate change represents to us. Spoiler alert: “”It is not accurate to say we can still stop climate change,” he says.
Long Now will make audio and video of this presentation available on their Web site soon after the event. I’ll also be reporting here.