In “Extinction’s toll could rival climate change,” scientists at McGill University in Canada point out that extinctions create holes in the fabric of the biosphere. The shredding lace of biodiversity “has the potential to affect plant production just as much as global warming and pollution.” What’s causing extinctions? We are.
Images of Our Futures
Displaying All Posts Filed under the "Images of Our Futures" Category
In “1859s “Great Auroral Storm”—the week the Sun touched the earth,” Matthew Lasar writes an evocative history of a past ‘wild card’ event – 1859’s massive solar flare that created auroral storms visible over much of the Earth. If you want a future projection of this scenario, you have no farther …
Channel Four offers us the second installment of Charlie Brooker‘s Black Mirror trilogy of post-modern, far-present, near-future video morality plays. If the first episode scoured across politics, social networks, and news journalism, the second sands away dismissals of reality TV talent contests as entertaining fluff. Related articles Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits, Channel …