Climate collapse: The people who fear society is doomed
No scientific study has found that climate change is likely to wipe out civilization, but for many even the possibility is terrifying enough to upend their lives.
Rich countries like the US and Australia have seen apocalyptic images of climate change after smoke from wildfires darkened skies above big cities
When Typhoon Vamco battered the Philippines in November last year, unleashing a month s worth of rain on the capital Manila in less than 24 hours, Mitzi Jonelle Tan was on her way home from work. Her mother, scared for her safety as roads flooded, warned her not to come back.
Petzold was advised by friends to include an introductory text outlining the fable. Still, the director refused. “Nobody knows the undine myth,” he says. “In Germany, too, they know the word ‘undine’, they know it’s something to do with water nymphs, but they don’t know the story behind it. And when you don’t know something and it’s surrounding you, you have to work.” He compares it to the westerns he consumed as a child that were based on Greek myths and Bible stories he’d not yet been taught. “I like movies that don’t explain it concretely.”
2021-04-02 03:21:13 GMT2021-04-02 11:21:13(Beijing Time) Sina English
People walk past a shopping center in Berlin, German, April 1, 2021. Germany on the same day reported 24,300 new COVID-19 cases, the country s highest since mid-January this year. Berlin will impose curfew restrictions on overnight travel in the city from April 2, and further tighten prevention measures after Easter, the government said. (Photo: China News Service/Peng Dawei) >Pedestrians walk past a mask enforcement sign posted on the ground in Berlin, German, April 1, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Peng Dawei) >Pedestrians walk past a sign reading Keep a distance of 1.5 meters posted on the ground in Berlin, German, April 1, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Peng Dawei)
Winston Churchill knew about the theatre of war. After all, he was a great political orator who led Britain through most of World War II.
But his theatrics during a peacetime speech in the United States in 1946 would go down in history as one of his most famous and important performances, serving as the opening salvo of the Cold War.
Seventy-five years ago this month, Churchill took to the stage at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and declared in a statement called Sinews of Peace that an Iron Curtain’ was falling - a major divide separating the communist world from the west.
Yen Tech manifests unfiltered pop star excess in Lazarus factmag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from factmag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.