Content 6+ If you’ve ever heard someone exclaim, with righteous indignation, “What global warming? It’s snowing in May!” you’ve witnessed a unique human talent: our ability to misunderstand science spectacularly, confidently, and with a self-assured grin.
Imagine, for a moment, the person who peers through their window at a late-May snowfall in Moscow. The ground is sprinkled with a white, chilly blanket, and our hero smugly sips their coffee, convinced … Read the rest
Content 16+ Imagine a future historian—perhaps an AI with a wry sense of humor—sifting through the ruins of our civilization. It finds two things in abundance: a feverish atmosphere and mountains of garbage. The air is thick with greenhouse gases that our factories and cars so generously pumped out, and the land (and sea) is … Read the rest
Content 18+ It is a human tendency, deeply ingrained in our species, to prioritize the immediate over the distant, the tangible over the theoretical. We evolved in a world where the pressing needs of the present—shelter, food, survival—held greater weight than the invisible threats of tomorrow. Unfortunately, climate change has a nasty habit of turning tomorrow into today, just when we were least expecting it.
The data is irrefutable. Global … Read the rest
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
Контент 18+ Astrology has its place, we know, and many people devote much energy and attention to absorbing what their individual sign predicts. I even have a student-friend who is a serious and well-paid journalist, and whose wife is 100% engrossed in astrology, studying it as a future career (though doing exactly what and for how much money I am not sure.) I take it that she has been equally … Read the rest
