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If It Feels Like Our Civilization Is in an Emergency, That’s Because It Is

McKinney Fire in Klamath National Forest, California, is the largest wildfire in California so far this year. Image Credit: Noah Berger

There’s a word floating around. Like “alarmist” before it, it’s pejorative. An insult, of a kind, from a certain perspective, making the insinuation that the person to whom the word is applied is hysterical, irrational, easily frightened…