THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH

It is worse, much worse, than you think.The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says i t isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surfac e of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.Over the past decades, the term Anthropocene has climbe d into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of t he plane...[Read more]