You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And so, it's not just simply a matter of changing over to solar. It's a matter of changing our philosophies. Of learning to live, more or less, mid- or post-apocalyptic, whatever apocalyptic means.

It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of the universe are objective, but human beings in any context are not. That includes with regard to science. To some extent, the supposed objectivity of science has given a lot of extra cover to very subjective and eccentric approaches to exploring aspects of ourselves and the universe around us.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.