I’m the expert, God help us all. - Adrian Tchaikovsky

And wasn’t the planet supposed to die? Wasn’t that the deal about human-generated climate change? That the world was supposed to predecease us? I mean, that certainly seemed to be what we’d agree to. That, okay, we’d destroy everything, but that was fine just so long as the last thing to get destroyed was us. And here's all this. Flourishing. Fucking flourishing in the death zone. Heat-adapted in a way we could never be.

I am nothing but a scientist of sufficiently advanced technology, which is to say a magician.

Long-term thinking requires a clarity the natural human mind is not good at.