Langtang Lirung Glacier A Harbinger of More to Come?

The short videos of the recent Langtang Lirung glacier collapse captured natural destruction in Nepal on a scale we never would have seen before smartphones. Perhaps footage like this will drive home, in people’s minds, how fragile and transitory humanity’s only home—Mother Earth—really is. Listen to Elon: humanity needs to hedge its survival bets by becoming multiplanetary.

Yesterday: the Langtang Lirung glacier collapse.
Next: the Siberian Traps—a likely extinction-level event.