"Plague to World: Drop Dead"
I wish I could read. Not that I lack the ability to see words in a sentence and comprehend them, more that I find myself just infinitely distracted from doing something as simple as sitting down and reading a book. I find myself continually just skimming to the briefest summary of the information and using that as my primary source. It's a shame really.
Anyhow, the NYT book review of this book makes it sound just fantastic. I wish people today had a better sense of context. We're so focused on the terrible (and they are terrible) things that happen today. But if one looks back, you'll always find something more terrible. Tsunami = 150,000 dead. Black death = 200 million dead. Titanic = 1,200 dead. Sultana = 1,650 dead. Jewish Holocaust = 6 million dead. Chinese Cultural Revolution = 65 million dead. It's easy to go on.
To the point at hand, the world is just so going to kick our ass in some major event, you don't even know. It'll be an Earthquake, plague, massive storm, whatever. And it'll kill a billion people. Fortunately, because there is nothing whatsoever you can do about it, I invite you to ignore it until it happens.