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Life begins. Life ends. Long ago, the world began, and one day the world will end. Today people work to protect the world. They save energy and use clean energy. We may succeed in protecting our planet. We must try. But surely one day, maybe millions of years from now, the sun will burn out. If that doesn’t happen, the world may turn cold again and enter another ice age.

The future of the world is a question for science, but it is also a question for art. In the poem Fire an...