A decade or two from now, people may be eating some plant-based simulated-meat products in place of meat from livestock. In this episode of Soonish, we start from one simple idea: On a planet that will likely be home to 10 billion people by 2050,...
In this fairy tale from 2050, the invisible monster of climate change continues to ravage the land. Once upon a time, long, long ago, I testified before the great assembly of our land. When I describe this event to children today, it really does...
Can a city be so soaked in history that there’s no room left for the future? In this edition of Soonish, we dive into the ancient tension in urban planning between the old and the new. Should we do everything we can to preserve the parts of the...
T.R. Vivek travels upstream of Cauvery in search of a solution to India’s oldest and most bitter water dispute. At slightly under 800 kilometers, the Cauvery is the smallest of India’s major rivers. But it is the subject of the oldest and the...
By withdrawing from the very institutions it once helped create, America risks losing its global influence. President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, marking the latest...
