Epictetus on the Climate Crisis

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Stoics are rightfully viewed as the Graeco-Roman technologists of the self par excellence. It is less well known that they were keen students of the natural world and lovers of science. If the ancient Stoics were faced with the unfolding catastrophe of the anthropogenic climate crisis, I don’t think their response would differ much from what they wrote millennia ago. Not about the climate crisis, of course, but about living well in…