Trying to inspire passion about extinction - and climate change, and drought, and deforestation, and sea turtles with straws sticking out of their snouts - is part and parcel of environmental journalism. To eavesdrop on a conversation between Goldfarb and Jarvis about how Jarvis found, reported and wrote this story, see Brooke Jarvis Uncovers an Insect Armageddon. Storyboard has partnered with The Open Notebook for a deep dive on “The Insect Apocalypse is Here.” In our piece, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb analyzes how Brooke Jarvis cuts through the noise of environmental gloom to gain readers’ attention. Writing about the vaquita’s struggles in 2016 - and 2017, and 2018 - felt like tossing pebbles against a locked window, the blinds drawn and shutters closed. Although the vaquita is no longer as obscure as it once was, it’s still damned difficult to make people care about such a cryptic creature. The reasons for its imminent demise are too complex to explicate here - read the story, people! - but suffice to say that it’s doomed by the unholy alliance of our insatiable appetite and our global economy.
The cetacean in question is the vaquita, a Mexican marine mammal that is shy, adorable, and totally screwed. In light of that, Storyboard is republishing select posts about stories that focused on the history or impacts.įor several years, I have been captivated by a porpoise. Readers can purchase “The Human Apocalypse” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Kobo or Barnes and Noble.įor additional information on this recent publication, contact Covenant Books at 84.EDITOR’S NOTE: The report released this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does not equivocate: Global warming is real, human-caused, catastrophic - and leaves a narrowing window to address it.
This is a story of love, loss, hope, and all the zombies in between. But what if not all the zombies were mindless flesh eaters? What if some had intention? The undead are everywhere, but what happens when Michael and Ruby are faced with something more, something bigger, something scarier? Mindless zombies are terrifying on their own. Just when the threat of the undead seems to be contained, a new kind of evil arises. Michael and Ruby soon discover that there is a different kind of threat lurking in the shadows. Find out just what zombies are capable of, why they are so greatly feared, and why zombies aren’t the only thing to fear. Discover the untold truth of this post-apocalyptic nightmare. After a massive nuclear war claimed the lived of millions, and utter catastrophe engulfed the planet as radiation warped science as we knew it, Michael and his new-found friend, Ruby Valentine, set out on a perilous quest for answers.įollow Michael and Ruby as they journey to Kansas City, seeking safety in numbers, as they go through and conquer unspeakable challenges. Michael Evland, a 23-year old from rural Kansas, had no one, and nothing to accompany him but a world of chaos-a world where the dead had inherited the earth. “The Human Apocalypse” is the creation of published author, Aaron Weaver, a young author who has overcome many hardships and hopes to inspire others with similar and different struggles to never give up. “The Human Apocalypse” an enthralling adventure of survival in a world filled with zombies, unspeakable challenges and petrifying situations.
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