One of the factors that inhibits humans from dealing with future catastrophic events like climate change is the way our brains work.
Bryan Walsh
Bryan Walsh is the author of End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World. Previously, he was TIME’s International Editor, its energy and environmental correspondent and was the Tokyo bureau chief in 2006 and 2007. He lives in New York.
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