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Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“If we aren’t able to set aside some personal freedoms to keep a million or more people from dying needlessly from a novel virus, and to keep our health care system from imploding, then heaven help us when climate change hits and the economy crumbles due to our hitting a series of environmental limits.”55
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Is there any way to keep faith with the unpleasant facts and still offer people a viable strategy forward? And if there isn’t, should we still tell people how bad we think it is? Yes, Guy McPherson and Tim DeChristopher have concluded.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
At the end of the day, Seidemann and the others loaded their boats on trailers and, with the carp still in them, drove into town. The fish, now inert and glassy-eyed, were dumped into a waiting semi-trailer. This round of barrier defense continued for another three days. The final tally was six thousand four hundred and four silver carp and five hu
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Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
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The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest | The New Yorker
Kathryn Schulznewyorker.comThe growth machine has pushed humans beyond the limits of our minds—but it is also pushing the planet beyond its ecological limits.