The world is ending, and I feel fine
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Nunatsiaq News reporter Miriam Lafontaine recently wrote about one recent study that predicts Arctic winters will be, on average, 10 degrees warmer by 2100.
In 1947, after the first nuclear weapons were developed, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock to assess risks to humanity.
Today, it sits at 85 seconds to midnight.
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EDITORIALS OCT 17, 2026 – 8:30 AM EDT
The world is ending, and I feel fine
Climate change and AI pose existential risks, but the past has shown we can adapt
Heavy rains wash out a bridge in Pond Inlet on Sept. 5. (Photo courtesy if Andrew Tagak)
By Randi Beers
A friend told me a story this summer about a smokey day in Minnesota, where she lives. When she complained about the haze to her 13-year-old nephew, he responded: “That’s just summer.”
It wasn’t long ago that wildfire smoke was a characteristic of summer mostly limited to western North America, where conditions are drier.…
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