The economic costs of natural disasters related to global warming are adding up; some of the largest effects of these catastrophes can be felt in the United States, where politics and policies are not keeping pace
with the physical realities of climate change.
The articles follow the convention which allows fantasy tales
unconnected with physical reality to count as part of physical science, provided that they have no spiritual meaning.
Their ministrations to prepare the body for viewing and eventual burial compounded this familiarity, intimately acquainting
them with the physical realities of death.
Others simply confront
us with the physical reality of the work, inasmuch as that's possible.