> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.possibilities.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # We're All Just Space Dust - URL: https://www.possibilities.news/trump-iran-nuclear-war/ - Published: 2026-04-09T13:23:17.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-09T13:23:17.000Z - Description: As astronauts gaze at our planet hundreds of miles away, we're forced to reckon with how fragile this pale blue dot really is. - Author: Yessenia Funes **This edition is available to all (except the paid exclusives). Support my work and upgrade to paid** [**here**](https://www.possibilities.news/#/portal/signup) **for as little as $5 a month.** --- **LISTENING:** *to the Artemis II livestream* **FEELING:** *enraged and paralyzed* **SEEING:** *the Artemis II livestream* While Donald Trump issues threats of nuclear holocaust to Iran, four astronauts fly over 200,000 miles away, slowly returning to Earth. Eight billion people share this one planet we get to call home. It's the only home humanity has ever known — the same lands where dinosaurs once walked are where our great-grandchildren will likely live someday. Unless interstellar colonization really takes off, or if evil people like Trump don't manage to blow everything up. I write this on Tuesday, ahead of knowing what the president will do. (My sister's birthday is Wednesday, so I'll be offline most of the day. I am relieved Trump didn't nuke Iran but disheartened that Israel [bombed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/israel-operations-in-lebanon-to-continue-despite-trump-ceasefire-iran-pakistan-hezbollah?ref=possibilities.news) Lebanon instead.) What I do know is this: War devastates human and ecological health, as well as the stability of our biosphere. Nuclear pollution sickens the [more-than-human creatures](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1099162/full?ref=possibilities.news) many of us rely on for sustenance. It [disrupts](https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/11906?ref=possibilities.news) our ocean and marine neighbors. We are connected to the world's water system. Nuclear war also has the potential [to transform](https://www.rand.org/pubs/research%5Fmemoranda/RM4989.html?ref=possibilities.news) our weather and climate patterns, throwing an already-unpredictable system (thanks to fossil fuel pollution) into further disarray. [Support an indie journalist if you can](#/portal/signup) World leaders have already ruined our planet's balance. Our existence is a divine miracle. We live on a planet with the perfect set of conditions to breed life. Conditions we have yet to find on any other planet nearby. The land nurtures us, feeds us, keeps us safe. What a gift that we all live in the timeline where we can connect online and be in virtual communion with one another. That we can witness — from our handheld devices — the awesomeness of science and space exploration. Instead of practicing gratitude, people like Trump want to exhibit force and an iron fist. They relish in acts of power and triumph. Not the stillness and softness the world so desperately needs. Even this moon mission, as magical as it feels, is ultimately about [putting people back on the moon](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00978-y?ref=possibilities.news) before China does. That information killed some of the magic for me. Earth will be OK — she always is. She will stand the test of time despite the harm world leaders inflict on her. But people — entire families and cities and countries and cultures — will not. Neither will our four-legged, winged, or finned relatives. We can't claim to care about Earth and stay silent in the name of violence, especially at this grand scale. There's one climate advocate who never shies away from this brutal connection: Greta Thunberg. She worded this moment quite urgently in a [video](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW1rOY5jDBu/?igsh=aTN5YXRzM2ltOG5x&ref=possibilities.news) shared to Instagram Tuesday: "We have normalized genocide, total annihilation of entire people, the systematic destruction of the biosphere \[that\] we are all depending on to survive, and that corrupt, racist war criminals can act with complete impunity...Even though we have allowed far too much so far, it is not too late to say stop." By the time you read this, we'll know whether Trump acted on his sick fantasies. Let's hope humanity wasn't too late to stop him. Let's hope enough of us said stop. 🌀 **The newsletter ends here for free subscribers.** [**Why not upgrade?**](https://www.possibilities.news/#/portal/signup) --- ## Rest in Power **While we can't say for certain that climate change led to these specific weather events (we need attribution studies for that), we do know that the Earth's rising temperatures are already creating more frequent and/or stronger disasters like these.** Floods in Russia Sunday have left [at least three dead](https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW017906042026RP1/?ref=possibilities.news). ## Currently Reading I've just been introduced to The Margin, which does investigative environmental justice reporting. This [piece](https://themargin.us/features/insulating-the-energy-poverty-gap?ref=possibilities.news) on energy poverty in Washington state, by Amal Ahmed, is an amazing piece of journalism. For ProPublica, Agnel Philip [exposes](https://www.propublica.org/article/military-zones-border-migrants-charges?ref=possibilities.news) how the U.S. government is militarizing the border and charging migrants with trespassing in military zones. Wild. I love some good news! World leaders are gathering this month to talk about the transition away from fossil fuels, [reports The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/iran-war-oil-phase-out-fossil-fuels?ref=possibilities.news). Skyrocketing oil prices may be the economic boost countries need to get on board. [Defector's Tom Ley keeps it painfully real](https://defector.com/i-guess-were-just-waiting-around-to-see-if-this-demented-psychopath-kills-everyone?ref=possibilities.news): "We made one of the dumbest, most evil people this country has ever produced the President — twice! — and this is the consequence." ## Art ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0c/1a/0c1a1c44-c395-4236-a843-5697585f81d1/content/images/2026/04/IMG_8174.jpeg) The wedding zine my dear friend Jennifer Luxton designed for our wedding guests. Comment below if you would be interested in receiving one! I'll be mailing some out soon :) If there's enough interest, I might have a little giveaway. ****I'm going to Chicago next week for a journalism conference. Will anyone be there too? Let's meet!** \- Yessenia xx