
BONUS: An On Being Listening Party — Celebrating 20 Years
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Underworld Tells the Future
Spending six, seven years thinking about the underworld has really matched up my sense of time. The other thing is that the underworld tells the future. I should have known because greek myth tells us the sybyl at cuma, the oracle at delphi, they foretell the future by peering into the underworld. And now we're doing it scientifically. Were ice coring down to possibly up to a million years ago now, in terms of data in antarctic. We're using that, in part, to foretell our own climate futures,. You know, in a very different context, m these days, a more the context of how people in this country,
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