The Future Is Bleak. Pondering Pangaea Gives Me Hope.
THE HUMAN PASSION for gouging burnable stuff out of the earth and reducing it to ashes may well be the end of us. But it's not clear who the “us” is. Not you and me, obviously; we'll be lucky to see 2100. But “us” can't just mean our direct descendants, right? Does it have t…
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