“From certain angles,” writes Nick Davidson over at Outside magazine, “it looks like we’re hanging over the precipice. Climate change-fueled disasters like monster hurricanes, megafires, and 100-year droughts are becoming ever more frequent. A solar superstorm could wipe out the grid, the New Madrid fault might go at any moment, and, of course, there’s always potential for a zombie flu epidemic.”
Still, in this era in which Everything Is Terrible™, it’s nice to know that some of us are focused on the important things in life. Like, say, how many exclamation marks are required in order to seem genuinely enthusiastic.