End of the World? Nah. End of the World as We Know It. Yah.
So the actual end of the world probably shouldn’t worry us overmuch just yet. But the end of the world as we know it probably should.
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It’ll all turn out in the end. Or will it?
The obvious and important difference between this potential Sixth Great Extinction and all the others is that they had natural, unavoidable causes. There are fewer and fewer deniers now that our fossil-fueled grow-consume-lay waste-deplete global economy is the cause of this one.