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CPRA’s “bold” scheme for saving Plaquemines is to rehabilitate the crevasse for a post-crevasse age. The agency’s master plan calls for punching eight giant holes through the levees on the Mississippi and two more through those on its main distributary, the Atchafalaya. The openings will be gated and channelized, and the channels will themselves be

Ma quale temperatura sceglieremmo: la media dell’era preindustriale? 0,5°C in più? 1°C in più? E chi dovrebbe deciderlo? Queste sono domande fondamentali per un organismo di governance globale, che dovrebbe essere istituito con urgenza e dotati di effettivi poteri.

To explain this apocalyptic trend, Shellenberger borrows from The Denial of Death, a 1973 book by American anthropologist Ernest Becker (1924–1974). Fear of death, Becker wrote, is a core part of our subconscious. We realize our own mortality early in our lives and spend the later part dealing with it, often subconsciously. One way we deal with

It is clearer that the climate is changing, and I am open to the claim that it is changing in a calamitous direction, but I am not certain. Many of the press releases are drawn from very limited studies relating a few variables. In isolation, they create a compelling argument for outcomes that would harm human beings. But given that there is no

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