In @GreatDismal's latest: a character describes the jackpot as “multicausal”—“more a climate than an event.” The world eases into it gradually, all the bad things we worry about—rising oceans, crop failures, drug-resistant diseases, resource wars, and so on—happen, here and there
"It’s not that it happens in some places,” said Cory Merow, an ecologist at the University of Connecticut and one of the study’s authors. “No matter how you slice the analysis, it always seems to happen.”
