Waking Up

The news arrived the other day with another record humanity should never have wanted to break: August 2026 was the hottest August ever measured—and, together with July 2023, the hottest month ever recorded globally.

In 1917, one of the largest and seemingly most permanent empires in the world collapsed.

Europe’s gas storage is low.

For the first time in the whole history of humanity, we possess the technological ability to create a life of abundance for absolutely everyone on Earth.

This might be the most important article I have ever written.

I was never a huge Dolly Parton fan.

I was watching the Disney documentary Wings of Life when an orchid did something extraordinary.

“We have to understand that we are now at the end of civilization.”

Ask Google what morality is, and you get this definition: “Morality is a system of rules and values that helps people decide what is right and wrong.

Humanity is remarkably good at disagreeing.