Future Air
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. MY DAUGHTER HADLEY is nineteen years old. I am sixty-one. (Yikes.) Continue reading
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The Seduction of Speculation
Speculative fiction is an unfixed term for a genre broad enough to encompass the work of Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Octavia Butler, and Jorge Luis Borges. Readers and Continue reading
Crowded Planet
Over the course of the past one hundred years, we humans have grown in population at a rate rarely seen outside of a petri dish. Alan Weisman, author of the best-selling Continue reading
The New Face of War
THE FLIGHT FROM KUWAIT CITY was overbooked, and the American soldiers standing near the gate were hoping for upgrades. They were comparing notes with an accountant returning from her first trip Continue reading
State of the Species
(This essay was a finalist for a 2013 National Magazine Award in the Essay category.) THE PROBLEM WITH environmentalists, Lynn Margulis used to say, is that they think conservation has something Continue reading