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Have you read the 1949 book by George R. Stewart called Earth Abides? Have you seen the recent television series that mangles the thrust of the story beyond recognition? Maybe you’d like to read it before listening to the podcast episode(s) in which Alex Leff—creator of the excellent Human Nature Odyssey podcast series—and I discuss the book and what we might learn about generational adaptation to modernity’s eventual up-ending. Spoiler alert: we make no effort to protect future readers from ...

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