“All of these things wouldn’t have happened a couple of years ago because there wasn’t enough room on the sidewalks”
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Hansen Interview
Yes, you’ve heard it all before, but if you know someone who hasn’t yet, this would be a good place for them to start.
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The Hard Way
Business guru Malcolm Gladwell argues that practice is more important than talent.
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Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors
Taylor Wilson, is known as the boy who played with fusion, because at the age of 14 became the 32nd individual on the planet to achieve a nuclear-fusion reaction.
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Ambient Carbon Capture
It’s time to start thinking about how to subtract carbon from the atmosphere.
See also this recent article on Slate.
UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan has a roundup of the topic.
And Chris Tackett at Treehugger has an interesting take on it.
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It’s Existential
Just another climate rant. “It’s like watching space Nazis launch asteroids at us and the mainstream media talks exasperatedly about ‘those space Nazi people’ who are so quaintly concerned that we are all going to be vaporized in a giant fiery cataclysm while our top political leaders argue about who is more pro-asteroid.”
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The Task of Our Generation
“I don’t know what instrument you hold, but you need to play it as best as you can. … This is our task now. … The environmental crisis is the great moral crisis of our age.”
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A Hell of a Way to Run a Planet
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise.
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Arctic Sea Ice Volume Annual Minima Over Time
This brief video speaks for itself. By Andy Lee Robinson via Neven.
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