🌿 Environment Aug 19, 2026 · John R. Platt

Laugh in the Face of Doom and Gloom

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Laugh in the Face of Doom and Gloom
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In 2024 a team of scientists with a dry sense of humor announced the name of a newly discovered but extinct species: the obliterated whitefish.
Extinction is deadly serious, but you have to admit that’s a brilliant name for a species — a name that makes us sit up and take notice of the fact that we wiped that creature out of existence.
Wordplay like that, along with other forms of comedy and satire addressing critical issues, can cut through the crap and make us think about things from angles we

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