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Is accepting the end of humanity the key to climate action? This scholar thinks so.

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By Diana Kruzman, David Geselbracht, John Thomason Verified
| Grist Verified
There’s a part at the end of “Don’t Look Up,” last year’s wildly popular Netflix film about a comet hurtling toward Earth, when a group of people have dinner together on the eve of the planet’s destruction.
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Olúfémi O. Táíwò's theory of everything

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By John Thomason Verified, Joseph Lee, Eve Andrews Verified
| Grist Verified
On an overcast spring day in Washington, D.C., Georgetown University professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò paced the length of a triptych blackboard, telling his students a story: In the 18th century, European men published iconoclastic arguments declaring that all individuals were born free and equal. “These are not merely abstract philosophical questions,” Táíwò lectured.
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Paradise Waiting

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By John Thomason Verified, Naoki Hiroshima
| Oxford American Verified
Over Labor Day weekend last year I called a distant cousin, Mitch Cundiff, to ask if he could take me to Paradise. The old town is just a few miles from his home in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, where my grandmother grew up. He told me he was happy to, but there was nothing there to see. “It’s like the John Prine song says,” he explained.
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