We've always fictionalized Earth's final chapter, whether by aliens or asteroids or a nuclear blast.

Nowadays, it's the changing climate.

History is going so fast, technology's changing so fast that we're living in a science fiction story that we're all writing together.

This is something we can't actually get our heads around.

Climate change was too big for us.

We're just these dumb reptiles who just barely got upright, basically, you know.

New York has just welcomed the warmest Christmas holiday ever with 65-degree temperature weather.

In the future, we'll have a word, winter smell, that encompasses all of these smells of winter that we're losing.

Did you see the snowdrops? They shouldn't be out yet. We live in an untimely time when things are starting to behave out of sync and out of joint.

It's the end times, but it's not all bad, we promise.

This is a rerun episode from July 2017, which we think is still timely, because let's face it, a lot of us are still thinking about the end of the world. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And our planet is weird.

Phoenix could reach 120 degrees, forcing dozens of flight cancellations

because many of the regional planes simply can't fly in temperatures above 118.

The North Pole is seeing a heat wave. Scientists say it's 36 degrees warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean.

Melting sea ice is behind this gathering of walruses, thousands of them, forced ashore, facing

starvation.

The weather sounds like the stuff of science fiction, as does much of what we've done to the

earth, so much so that there's a new term for our time, the Anthropocene, the age of man. And since we'll need new words to describe our

march into the Anthropocene, we asked you to conjure some up. Ecologiac, deriving from ecology

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