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“It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.” The first two sentences of David Wallace-Wells’ “The Uninhabitable Earth” is clearly terrifying and abrupt,Continue reading “Leena Khurana – Blog Post #3”

“Something New Under the Sun” describes the urgency of the environmental situation in the present day. J.R. McNeill clearly states how this is the first time that humanity has affected ecosystems with so much intensity and at such a rapid pace: “the scale and intensity of changes were so great that matters that for milleniaContinue reading “Leena Khurana – Blog Post #2”

Charles Mann’s article, “State of the Species,” explicitly illustrates the path that we are taking, as the Earth continues to become in worse shape. His comparison of humans to invasive species is clear: “Humans, too, specialize in disturbed habits – but we do the disturbing.” Mann’s reference to the way that humans invade multiple habitats,Continue reading “Leena Khurana – Blog Post #1”