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Episode 40: Philipp Blom

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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The Rise of an Enlightened Class

In Europe this crisis of climate change begins to get tackled the crisis of agriculture not only through trade but also through botany, through empirical research in what makes plants grow better. And both of these things need a literate population they need education and we see the rise of an educated class in Europe at this time. Now this is really the beginning of the enlightenment that is that directly owed to climate change no of course not directlybut you see that the pressure that was put on the wall through this crisis of agriculture really moves societies in this direction.

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