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The Age of the Apocalypse
Erica Chan
“Today, we seem to be living in the age of the apocalypse. Shrugging away Climate Change, with its grim imagery of the bleached bones of countless species baking under a forbidding sun, is difficult enough. Likewise, the insidious spread of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS certainly warrants more than a shudder. And if both were not sufficient to keep us awake at night, the continued existence of enough nuclear warheads to destroy the earth hundreds of times over …”
