Our World Survived an Apocalyptic Volcano, But Here, Take My Plastic Straws and Confiscate My Paychecks

Imagine the power of something thousands and thousands of times greater than the force of a nuclear bomb; a blast heard ‘round the world and reverberating across endless miles of ocean. Something that size seems almost incomprehensible, but it happened—courtesy of a small, seemingly insignificant dot in what is now Indonesia. In 535 AD, that…