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The epidemic is the ultimate proof of how our world has become globalized, interconnected, inextricable.
Paolo Giordano • How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate
Many shades of the departed are occupied solely in licking the waves of the river of death because it comes from out direction and still has the salty taste of our seas.
Then the river rears up in disgust, flows the opposite way, and washes the dead back into life. They however are happy, sing songs of thanksgiving, and stroke the indignant stream.
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In the twentieth century, the biodiversity crisis, as it eventually came to be known, only sped up. Extinction rates are now hundreds—perhaps thousands—of times higher than the so-called background rates that applied over most of geological time. The losses extend across all continents, all oceans, and all taxa. Along with the species formally cate
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Over the next four decades, five more cores were extracted from different parts of the ice sheet. Each time, the wild swings showed up. Meanwhile, other climate records, including pollen deposits from a lake in Italy, ocean sediments from the Arabian Sea, and stalagmites from a cave in China, revealed the same pattern. The temperature swings became
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it was Martin Adams, who’d become disoriented in the storm and mistakenly started to descend the Kangshung Face into Tibet.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation