Content 12+ When humans learned to harness fire, it was a glorious short-term win. “Warmth! Light! Cooked mammoth!” cried our ancient ancestors. Of course, nobody paused to consider the long-term effects of all that smoke in their primitive caves. Fast forward several millennia, and we find ourselves with better tools, shinier toys, and the same lack of foresight—except now we have government policies to formalize it.
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Content 18+ Humanity has always excelled at self-destruction. From inventing the wheel to turning it into a war chariot, we’ve demonstrated an uncanny knack for using our greatest achievements to dig our own graves. But of all our short-sighted triumphs, climate change might just be our masterpiece—a tragic symphony conducted by fossil fuels, ignorance, and the occasional reality TV star turned politician.
And in this great orchestra of self-sabotage, Donald … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ No matter who or what finally gets blamed, the Los Angeles fires – still not under control as we speak – recently swirled to such ravenous levels of destruction that most people couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Terrified and flabbergasted, they didn’t know what to do next; you could see it in their eyes. All of a sudden even movie stars … Read the rest
Content 14+ Imagine standing alone in the pitch black, with nothing but shadows for company. Now imagine striking a match. That tiny flame, though small, pushes back the darkness and reveals what was hidden in the shadows. This, dear reader, is the power of science in our world—a solitary spark in an otherwise dark night.
Our world is often shrouded in superstitions and irrational fears that dance like phantoms in … Read the rest
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My wife Liuba is from Omsk, and many hard, frozen, poverty-stricken years there did nothing to damage her health.But all it took was four winters amid the belching smokestacks and poisoned atmosphere of Moscow for her to contract a chronic bronchial infection. During her last two years in the megapolis, often amid endless bleak rains that more and more prevail there because of climate change, our apartment was … Read the rest
