As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, , professor of history, spends a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront current crises鈥攅specially climate change. , Sachs writes that he finds a lot of guidance in the 1800s, from the appreciation of wildness in 鈥淲alden鈥 to the notebooks of Charles Darwin.
鈥淏ut my nomination for the most helpful climate manual ever written might be a surprise: Moby-Dick,鈥 . 鈥淲hat makes 鈥淢oby-Dick鈥 especially relevant right now is that it offers a spur to solidarity and perseverance.鈥
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