We’re (not) all going to die!

Aren’t you sick of all this doom and gloom news about the planet and how it's too late to save ourselves? Face it, we’re riddled with poisons to the core, and the end of the world is inevitable. Go enjoy Vegas, let your kids watch network TV, whatever. Well, maybe not, says the United Nations. Its Millennium Ecosystem Assessment explains how we might just turn things around within the next half-century. But we'd better hurry TF up--and keep the oceans from rising, coral reefs from dying, and Atlantic ** current from shutting down! Maybe that leaves enough time for me to be optimistic by the early elderly years (judging by family DNA, expect a solid nine decades...mercy mercy me).