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“The spill directly affected 70,000 square miles of ocean”
The evolution of our big brains is the single most distinctive feature of Homo sapiens. Human ingenuity has taken us from our hunter-gatherer origins, merely surviving alongside other species, to sending astronauts up to an orbiting space station while millions of us watch a live rocket launch from thousands of miles away. We have become masters of our own destiny on Earth, yet it’s been proven time and time again that we’re more than capable of ruining our planet for ourselves and for other living things. In this issue, we look at how we caused some of the worst disasters in recent history and how we went about cleaning up the terrible messes that we made. Enjoy!