We’re on the brink of an absolute nightmare — here’s what has to happen now — We’re chroniclers, now, of climate change. We’re observing the drying up of rivers and lakes around the world, droughts in East Africa and parts of the US, floods in Pakistan, a hurricane devastating southwest Florida, and the melting of sea ice at the poles. Maybe we’re writing about it to…

Greetings again from the darkness.

Is it time to start prepping? If you’re a smoker, you don’t smoke a lifetime of cigarettes all at once. You smoke one cigarette at a time. This creates an illusion of innocuousness. Each time you light up, you’re not sparking the entirety of all the cigarettes you’ll ever smoke…

Free will is an illusion I think we know the universe is deterministic. We just fool ourselves otherwise. Our egos need to believe in their own agency. Yet, there are clues all around us we’re playing a charade. Let’s start by thinking of the number of phrases we use, everyday…

How does his popularity grow despite mounting criminal charges? I finally understood what it was all about. — Remember when it first happened? A celebrity real estate guy, a one-trick TV showman who fired people, was the insurgent outsider in the 2016 presidential race. Maybe you want to forget about it; I wouldn’t blame you. People alternately laughed him off, clutched their pearls in righteous indignation, or rationally…

It’s not hopeful complacency or smug nihilism from here on, it’s selfless mitigation — Social media is primarily about confirmation bias. If you clicked on this article, chances are you already agree with its premise. …

Potential Mitigation Strategies for Taking the Sharpest Edges off Climate Change — I may very well be in the bargaining stage of grief. Our world is burning. Thirty million acres of forest in Canada taken by wildfires, and in Hawaii, as I write this, fires rage, exacerbated by hurricane-force winds. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The five stages. It’s so hot…

Potential Mitigation Strategies for Taking the Sharpest Edges off Climate Change — Doom sells. It really does. If I write an article that “All Hope Is Lost,” I’ll get ten times the engagement than with “Best Climate Strategies,” or something similar. And as a reader, I’m more likely to click on the former article myself. There’s something perversely comforting in the idea…

Potential Mitigation Strategies for Taking the Sharpest Edges off Climate Change — Ah, the End Times. As with everything else, we’re carving our identities in the face of climate change. “I’m a prepper,” we declare. “I’m an optimist!” Or maybe, “I’m just gonna sit back and watch.” Even a potentially extinction-level event can’t stop us from planting our flags and digging in…