The End of the Long SummerBy: Dianne Dumanoski For the past twelve thousand years, Earths stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earths history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planets very metabolism; our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. Climate change is already bearing down, hitting harder and