Hunger

Carl Mydans/ The Life Picture Collection via Getty Images
Carl Mydans/ The Life Picture Collection via Getty Images

If—as seems likely—we keep heating the globe and depleting its groundwaters, many of us will starve. In the history of humans, starvation—not war—has been our overwhelmingly biggest killer.

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Annie Dillard  is the author of numerous books, including Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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