Rearranging Solar Systems

And Other To-Do’s

Mindset A: Vast expanse of twilit industrial monocrops. Mindset B: Signal of our capacity to shape natural systems. / © B.L. Smith 2017 (Somewhere over Nebraska)

I can only imagine how people first reacted to Copernicus when he claimed the Earth revolves around the sun. Heliocentric? Pff! What’s with this guy?

It turns out that assimilating new evidence and realigning one’s fundamental beliefs is difficult for most people. Yet it’s becoming apparent to me that our ability to shift worldviews when presented with new data is…