Is the end nigh? Have we really gone and done it this time — destroyed the planet, raped the great orb, despoiled the spinning Mother of all Mothers?

Don’t ask me. But here’s Ronald Bailey (writing in Reason), and he doesn’t seem to think so. Nor do “Great Restoration” proponents like Jesse Ausubel:

In an article published this week by the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of environmentalists led by Mathis Wackernagel of Redefining Progress claim that human consumption and waste production have overshot the earth