The United States of Armageddon

A short tour of the end of the world, American-style, where the last days are EVERY day. Your hostess for the homegrown apocalypse, Kel Munger, is a writer, editor, teacher, and student of the apocalypse in all forms.Contact me at [email protected]. Follow me on Twitter: @KelMunger.

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‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble

We know climate change is altering the planet. What do we do now?

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Why Do We Love the Idea of the Apocalypse So Much?

Writer Dale Bailey thinks we're drawn to apocalyptic stories because personal tragedies can feel like the end of the world.

He says one reason we’re drawn to apocalyptic stories is because they capture the way that personal tragedy can feel like the end of the world. “For somebody, their world is ending as we speak, right now,” Bailey says. “Somewhere some tragedy is enveloping someone, and their world is going to be completely remade as a consequence, and it can happen at any time.”

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AI apocalypse AND Armageddon? That’s like the Doublemint gum end of the world!

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Here’s how to survive—if we want to survive.

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“But apocalyptic thinking has serious downsides. One is that false alarms to catastrophic risks can themselves be catastrophic. The nuclear arms race of the 1960s, for example, was set off by fears of a mythical "missile gap" with the Soviet Union. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was justified by the uncertain but catastrophic possibility that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons and planning to use them against the United States. (As George W. Bush put it, ‘We cannot wait for the final proof – the smoking gun – that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.’) And one of the reasons the great powers refuse to take the common-sense pledge that they won't be the first to use nuclear weapons is that they want to reserve the right to use them against other supposed existential threats such as bioterror and cyberattacks. Sowing fear about hypothetical disasters, far from safeguarding the future of humanity, can endanger it.”

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When our tribal mutated descendants try to get one of our “god boxes” working again.

Snake-Alt-Delete.

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Sounds like Newt had fun, today.

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Makes me feel a bit guilty for having the pest guy come slaughter the wasps, but I can't cohabit with them. Sorry, Earth!

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At last, the paper of record tells us how to do it!

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US report confirms 2016 as warmest year on record

Long-term global warming and a strong El Niño effect combined to set a new record for the planet.

A report compiled by a US government agency has confirmed that 2016 was the warmest year on record and the third year in a row of record global warmth.

The heat was the result of long-term global warming and a strong El Niño weather phenomenon, the report said.

Global surface and sea temperatures, sea levels and greenhouse gases levels were all at record highs, it added.

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