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Interview w/ Dr. Jonathan Foley on Project Drawdown, Hereditary Heights, Hearing Voices, Penguin Warming, Seaweed For Deer, Clean Mouse Houses, Glowing Gonopods, Lots Of Earthquakes, Ancient Beer, And Much More…

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You only live once!

A phrase often accompanied by a decision to do something bold, or indulgent or short sighted…

Such as a tattoo that says “You only live once”

when the acronym YOLO would have sufficed and taken up less space on your neck…

But is that really true? Do we all live just once?

As anyone with a neck tattoo might tell you,

no… it is not.

We live every day which is each our own personal forever…

and only die once.

But try encouraging your friends to do the bold, or indulgent, or short sighted thing

by shouting

You only die once!

And you will likely get less takers…

Humans have for many generations been treating the planet

as if all that could possibly matter is that which immediately matters to them…

As if humanity only lived once, and to heck with the consequences…

And now…

the consequences are setting in like a YOLO neck tattoo at a job interview.

(Nothing against neck tattoos by the way just, if you are going to get one, maybe don’t base it on a meme)

And so we current humans,

living at the current height of histories consequences have choices…

We can make the changes needed to build a better future…

Or…

we all get neck tattoos that say…

This week in science,

Coming Up Next…

First up, and interview with Dr. Jonathan Foley

Dr. Jonathan Foley, the Executive director of Project Drawdown,