Anthropocene Stories

A memo from the year 2050

Here's how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases

Death is inevitable, but its
environmental toll may not have to be.

Bookmarks for a Human Age

The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.

Demography teaches an important lesson about population explosions: they are always temporary

There could be more than 60 billion of them on the planet

The ultimate literature of the imagination calls upon us to do more than merely invent or imitate the apocalypse

Any climate plan that doesn’t consider this question is bound to fail.

Here’s a coal retirement plan that doesn’t rely on uninvented technology or science-challenged leaders.

The Human Age will be shaped by the species we create and foster as well as the ones we kill off