Rising Seas of Community Voices

Disruptive Times are destructively creative.

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In the last few months, there has emerged a hot new topic on Medium. It is the end of the world as we know it but many top writers take it further with one particularly popular Medium writer branding our times as “The Age of Extinction” signifying that it is not just the ending of powerful civilizations but of life on earth, and he has branded it! Cha-ching!

Maybe true, because, anything is possible. The movie, Don’t Look Up, jumpstarted this trend by taking on the possibility of an asteroid hitting the planet, clearly intended as a metaphor for many other issues that we face today and a reflection on our manner of addressing potentialities. The aforementioned school of Medium writers portrays the collusion of disruptive events as leading to an inevitable outcome of certain doom.

Scientists are trying to understand the potential effect of the land-based ice shelf known as Thwaites Glacier shattering and falling into the ocean which could happen as soon as three…