The Age of Worst Case Scenarios

Why this Age Feels Like We’re Rushing Headlong Into Catastrophe After Catastrophe

Image Credit: Jay Martin

The world today feels unsettled, strange. It feels as if we’re heading into grim, foreboding, unknown territory — crossing the threshold of so many apocalypses at once. One way to think about all this is that we’re into the horizon of what you might call the Age of Worst Case Scenarios. There are a lot of them, and the really str…