EditorialClockwise from top: Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or M.R.E. packaging, toilet paper, peanut butter packet, disposable spoon, creamy spinach fettuccine entree, packet used for storing entree while it heats, flameless ration heater (to heat up the entree), pretzels, crackers, hot sauce, salt, matches, coffee, creamer, gum, sugar, moist towelette, chocolate protein drink in Gainesville, Ga. on May 15, 2021. (Rinne Allen/The New York Times)
EditorialNik Heynen, a geography professor at the University of Georgia, points to a map of Sapelo Island, which is part of the collection of barrier islands off the coast of Georgia, in Sapelo Island, Ga. on Dec. 7, 2020. (Rinne Allen/The New York Times)