Struggling to survive the Nine Threats (see previous posts), we ponder why we find ourselves delivered to a world not of our own choosing. ...

While the first six Threats are owing to Mother Nature, the final Three are due to our own nature; our propensity to kill ourselves off....

There is a limited amount of air, land, and water to sustain us, not to mention a narrow band of environmental factors such as temperat...

The last three of the Nine Threats can be called Latent: it is the great burden of sentience to carry within the seeds of its own extinc...

The last of the Three Local Threats we can call Biologic; by predation from microbes to monsters, life is the eater of life. And we’re the...

This threat to life is the second of three ‘Local’ threats; a good example of the fact that you not only need to live in a safe neighborho...

  This is what I’ve called Geologic, the first of the Three Local Threats not from the sky above our heads, but the ground below our fe...