Whatever you choose to measure, be it global population, the damming of rivers, increases in communication or transport technology, or the relentless spread of McDonald’s restaurants, the pattern is s...
When a reporter asked Gandhi what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, I think it would be a wonderful idea. I would say the same about human intelligence. If we are not intelligent, then w...
Is. I think our fundamental Anthropocene dilemma is that we have achieved global impact but have no mechanisms for global self-control. So, to the (debatable) extent that we are like some kind of glob...
For the first time ever the majority of children being born today will never in their lives directly see the Milky Way galaxy. The cosmic connection has never been closer or more remote. Age
Climate scientist Ray Pierrehumbert, one of the coauthors on the recent National Research Council report on geoengineering by solar radiation management,9 put it, trying to do this anytime soon would...
Society. The orbital technology enabling this observation is itself one of the strange and striking aspects of the transition now gripping Earth. If up to now the defining characteristic of Earth has...
While ruthlessly aggressive toward other species, they are also unusually cooperative with their own kind. Ants from neighboring nests don’t fight, as with other species,
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