Talking through this, Erin and I got to thinking about a closely related issue: Who saves packaging anymore? Did your parents when you were growing up? Do they still? Do you?

The movies condition us to imagine survival as a response to a singular, calamitous event: a pandemic virus, a zombie invasion, a plane crash, aliens, government collapse. But it’s more realistic to imagine that we are already living in the midst of a slowly unfurling cataclysm whose effects we encounter in succession, like the waves of an ocean. P... See more