The Rising Ocean Will Extinguish More Than Land. It Will Kill Entire Languages
Due to climate change, some scents—and the stories attached to them—are at risk of being lost.
National Geographic • What’s that smell? It might just be the next big thing in travel.
The world “apocalypse” is born of the Greek apokálypsis , meaning revelation, or hidden knowledge. The etymology suggests a divinely ordered retribution, a punitive conclusion, a Judgment Day when all will be revealed. It carries the idea that some mighty righteousness will organize our madness and impose justice on all the awful things we witness ... See more
J Wortham • My 10-Day Crash Course on Surviving the Apocalypse
As nations with weaker institutions suffer greater damages and food prices rise, climate breakdown will be a catalyst for existing grievances, facilitating war and conflict. Connections between climate, conflict and forced migration have already been made, and experts think these connections will only deepen towards mid-century.
Paul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
The risks of unchecked global warming are now widely acknowledged: a rise in sea levels threatening the existence of some low-lying coastal communities; pressure on freshwater resources, making food production more difficult in some countries and possibly becoming a source of societal conflict; changing weather patterns providing favorable conditio
... See moreBjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
After Valencia, nobody can say they did not know
We used to think the kind of damage wrought by recent flooding in the west of Spain was beyond imagination. Very soon, it could become the norm
Dominic Hinde9th November 2024
Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a
... See moreOne way to make sense of the biodiversity crisis would simply be to accept it. The history of life has, after all, been punctuated by extinction events, both big and very, very big. The impact that brought an end to the Cretaceous wiped out something like seventy-five percent of all species on earth. No one wept for them, and, eventually, new speci
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