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As a former New Yorker: good!

"Global warming will not bring a rat apocalypse, and these disease-carrying pests will not be swarming the sweltering streets of our major cities anytime soon. Any more than they already are, at least.

Linking rats and global warming yields sensational headlines for advocacy journalists who want to sound the alarm about climate change. But this study used shoddy data, was presented in a deeply misleading way, and the media should have paid it no attention whatsoever."

https://reason.com/video/2025/07/15/theres-no-evidence-that-climate-change-has-increased-the-rat-population/

This is an interesting read. As someone who spent at least some of my youth in evangelical circles, I'm very familiar with this endtime theology. Even theologically speaking, it's pretty much nonsense.

I remember well the Left Behind series who popularised it anew, and the tendency to believe the fictional narrative of those books.

Make no mistake. This type of fundamentalism is extremely dangerous when mixed with actual power.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/29/us/iran-israel-evangelicals-prophecy-cec

A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World by Tom Phillips, 2025

This book is about the apocalypse, and how humans have always believed it to be very f*cking nigh. Across thousands of years, we'll meet weird cults, failed prophets and mass panics, holy warriors leading revolts in anticipation of the last days, and suburbanites waiting for aliens to rescue them from a doomed Earth.

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The hilarious and fascinating new book from the international bestselling author of HUMANS We'll journey back to the 'worst period to be alive', as the world reeled from a simultaneous pandemic and climate crisis. And we'll look to the future to ask the unnerving question: how might it all end?But it's also a book about how we live in a world where catastrophe is always looming - whether it's a madman with a nuclear button or the slow burn of environmental collapse. Because when we talk about the end of the world, what we really mean is the end of our world. Our obsession with doomsday is really about change: our fear of it, and our desire for it, and how - ultimately - we can find hope in it. Praise for the Brief History series:'Uproarious . . . Abundant good humour' The Times'Witty, entertaining and slightly distressing... You should probably read it' Sarah Knight, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck'Brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant' Jeremy Clarkson'Very funny' Mark Watson'Both readable and entertaining' Telegraph