I held back my scream. There it was, on Grandma’s dinner table; the Time magazine cover depicted a parched, apocalyptic landscape near Tokyo. It could have just as easily been a still from Mad Max: Fury Road. Inside: Amazon forests burning, soul-crushing details of life in Jacobabad, the hottest city on Earth. As if in quicksand, I ask “Why!?” Groups that run the world, the G7, G8, G20, convene summits to solve these problems but often fail due to...

I was sitting on a precipice eyeing the climb down a dangerously steep section of wooden steps to Mooney Falls - the moment when I stared down my acrophobia. I was a fourteen year-old scout at the base of the Grand Canyon and I needed to prove to myself that I could do it without adult help nor motivation. After a deep breath, I focused on each rung and each handhold and reached the bottom. Catalina Island, Havasupai Falls, Yosemite;...