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    Opinion: Earth Has Survived Extinctions Before, It's Humans Who Are Fragile

    Earth has experienced cataclysmic life-destroying events before. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what this means for humans in the midst of climate change.
    by Scott Simon Sep 07, 2019 1 minute
    A gas flare from the Shell Chemical LP petroleum refinery illuminates the sky on Aug. 21 in Norco, La.

    It takes only a few paragraphs in Genesis for the Earth to take shape, sprout with life, and then human beings. Of course, that development actually took millions of years.

    But this week, as the world watched a huge hurricane gather

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