Welcome to OnlySky
Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!
The climate crisis is not just a future problem. It's here now
Disaster specialist: 'We can't continue to approach disaster preparedness with resources and thinking from a world that had more time'
The future is a prisoner's dilemma
Our future is increasingly made worse by a refusal to cooperate.
Literally building the future: Infrastructure as an act of secular love
When we fix a bridge or give someone better healthcare, we’re saying that this life and this world are worth protecting.
Was I always going to write this?
It's one of the biggest and least consequential questions we can ask.
How Project 2025 threatens our secular democracy
It’s no surprise that Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, given the unpopularity of its goals. Neither is it a surprise that Trump, notoriously incurious about policy, might in fact be telling the truth when he says, "I know nothing about Project 2025"
Go easy on the weatherfolks. It's chaos out there
Weather forecasts are tangible, daily predictions of the future. But it's damn near impossible to get it right—and that's about to get much worse.
From secular society to secular civilization
In a hundred years, the Nones will likely be a majority of the US population. What will that secular society be like?
We’ve burned past +1°C. Did a 2008 climate prediction get it right?
Sixteen years ago, a documentary predicted how a warming Earth would look at each of six temperature benchmarks. Now we've passed the first.
Climbing the Kardashev ladder: How civilization survives
The power to control ever-greater amounts of energy is a hallmark of civilization’s progress, and humanity is poised to take the next big step.
Could the rise of the nonreligious defuse the population bomb?
The UN estimate of Earth’s human population has flown past eight billion. Can less religion slow the explosion?
A transcendent secularism
2074: Transcendent secularism, combining reason and wonder, has transformed our relationship to the natural world.
I want to die like a dog
Dying like a dog is the best death I can imagine.
