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24 Hours to Live?
“Albert Einstein, upon growing tired of answering questions about his thoughts on relativity, once gave this response: ‘Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.…
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Vertebrates Can’t & Won’t “Keep Up”
“Based on the peer-reviewed papers I have been citing for more than a decade, and the supporting papers that have been published more recently, I cannot imagine it will take centuries to achieve…
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Not at All Foggy Now, Mr. Fermi
“American professor and science educator Carl Sagan and Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist I. S. Shklovskii speculated in their 1966 book, Intelligent Life in the Universe, that technological civilizations will either destroy themselves within…
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Everything’s Ablaze, Always & Forever
“I’ll cut to the chase. The gist of Becker’s short essay is contained within the latter half of a single paragraph: ‘All human systems are enormous trash fires. Every single one, no matter…
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You Killed My Planet: Prepare to Die
“A few years after seeing the film for the first time, I adapted the line from Inigo Montoya to fit my own narrative, and reflect my own dire conclusions: ‘Hello, my name is…
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Facing The Four Horsemen
“If you believe you can overcome the impending collapse of global food production, welcome to Club Naiveté. I, too, used to believe I simply needed to grow and store my own food to…
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Climate Science’s Two Best-Kept Secrets
“So, that’s it: A three-step plan to nirvana, starting with nuclear war. This is the kind of story that captures the wishful, wish-filled imaginations of people constantly misinformed by governments, so-called climate scientists,…
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Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea
“Inconveniently, Earth is headed for a dead ocean. As founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Paul Watson has repeatedly said, “if the oceans die, we die.” After all, life on Earth originated in the ocean.…
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Peak Oil Has Gone Away (NOT)
“Conventional oil peaked in the United States in 1970. It was clear the US was no longer the world’s swing supplier in 1972. Shortly thereafter, OPEC was formed to ensure that political power…
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Disasterpants: Everything’s Ablaze, Always & Forever
“I’ll cut to the chase. The gist of Becker’s short essay is contained within the latter half of a single paragraph: ‘All human systems are enormous trash fires. Every single one, no matter…