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We are demigods of discards – but our copious garbage became a toxic burden only with the modern cult of ‘disposability’By Gabrielle HechtRead at Aeon

Climate change is an emergency but despair is not the answer. The world is full of untold stories of people-powered changeBy Christof MauchRead at Aeon

Wild, feral and fossil-fuelled, fire lights up the globe. Is it time to declare that humans have created a Pyrocene?By Stephen J PyneRead at Aeon

The world's last climate crisis demonstrates that surviving is possible if bold economic and social change is embracedBy Dagomar DegrootRead at Aeon

The slaughterhouse ethic of Soviet and American whalers tells us we must look beyond communism and capitalism to surviveBy Bathsheba DemuthRead at Aeon

In 1957, the world watched in wonder as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into outer space. Despite Cold War anxieties, The New York Times admitted that space exploration ‘represented a step toward escape from man’s imprisonment to Earth and its thin envelope of...By Jennifer StittRead at Aeon