
How glorifying ignorance leads to scientific illiteracy | By Ethan Siegel | Start with an explosion! | February 2025
As of the 1990s, North Korea began to deforest much of its lands to serve agricultural purposes. However, only a few years later, flood problems, largely related to that same act of deforestation, led to food shortages and famines. More than 30 years later, these problems continue to affect the North Korean people. (Credit: World…