Episode
The Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten Scheffer
COMPLEXITY · Jun 2, 2020 · 57 min
Humans, like any other organism, occupy a niche — a “Goldilocks Zone” for which our biology is suited, relatively to the extreme diversity of habitats on Earth. But to understand the natural habitat of human beings we would first have to perform a comprehensive survey of human settlements throughout history and prehistory, looking for patterns in the climate data. No one did this research until…