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Exposing the Big Game

The problem with predicting the end of the world

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There have been many end-of-the-world prophecies in the past. Why is this one somehow different?

 

MATTHEW ROZSA
JUNE 30, 2019 5:00PM (UTC)
Last month I interviewed Jay Inslee, the Washington governor running for president who is positioning himself as the climate change–aware candidate. In the introduction for that piece, I wrote that the stakes for that issue are literally “apocalyptic” — meaning if global warming doesn’t get addressed, the world as we know it will end.

But after publication, two of my acquaintances took umbrage with this statement. There have been many end-of-the-world prophecies in the past, they reasoned. Why is this one different?

I have to admit that they raised a valid point, discomforting as it may be to admit. There have been many occasions in human history in which vast swathes of civilization were convinced that the end of days was near. Considering that I’m writing…

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