Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the terms “black swan” for a high-impact event that can’t be predicted ahead of time and “gray swan” for an event that’s extremely rare and whose exact timing is unpredictable, but which can nevertheless be expected to occur and to have a tremendous impact when it does, like a global pandemic. The next Carrington E

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Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di

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