Bryan Walsh
Senior Editorial Director, Future Perfect, Climate, Unexplainable and The Gray Area
Latest articles by Bryan Walsh
Still sad, no longer young, kind of literary.
Receiving signals from extraterrestrial civilizations could pose an existential risk. Really.
Births went up by 1 percent last year, but don’t think of it as a baby boom.
But political barriers will hobble our ability to deal with the shifting patterns of global population.
Bluey opened up my imagination and made the most boring part of parenting fun.
Civil defense and other “right of boom” approaches could help mitigate the toll of a nuclear war — at least somewhat.
The decline of major conflict helped support decades of prosperity, but that future is now in doubt.
As the Beijing Winter Games begin, hopes that international sport could help promote global peace are melting away.
The number of human-made existential risks has ballooned, but the most pressing one is the original: nuclear war.
The pandemic has only accelerated a decline in US birth rates, even as immigration has plummeted.