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David Christian
American Historian
Born: Jun 30, 1946
Big History Living Me World You
Related authors: Carter G. Woodson Daniel J. Boorstin David McCullough Henry Adams James Truslow Adams Robert Fogel Tara Westover Will Durant
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are. David Christian
You All Religions Religions Indigenous Provide Traditions Where Stories Large Origin Map
I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction. And the same weapons are still here, and they're still armed. If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us. David Christian
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Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff. David Christian
More Powerful Stuff Where Gravity
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. David Christian
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Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it. David Christian
History World Big Sense Our Everything Way Our World Studies Within Making Offering Role The History Of
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers. David Christian
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Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past. David Christian
Job Building Become Past Research Neglect Detailed Absorb Historians Unfortunately Maps

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