On March 12, Largely Unnoticed, We Dodged the Apocalypse

Assessment: Future events cast a shadow before them … “We only have 12 years to save the planet,” we may hear. “Man may only have 10 years left if we don’t ________” (fill in the doomsayer prescription). The truth, though, is that we don’t know if humanity has still one year or six months — or less. And this reality was brought home by something that occurred March 12. It was on that day, not