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Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Book 11)
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Most of the water that will drown Miami and New York and Venice and other coastal cities will come from two places: Antarctica and Greenland. Often you hear about the disappearance of the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro or the glaciers in Patagonia, but in the context of drowning cities, land-based glaciers won’t contribute much. What really matters is
... See moreJeff Goodell • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
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enough pieces come together, plastics could one day become a carbon sink—a way to remove carbon rather than emit it.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Tungsten, the architects now learned, was the planet’s trendiest dense metal. Crypto people were then memeing about “the intensity of the density.” A company in the Midwest had supposedly created the world’s biggest tungsten cube. A mere fourteen inches, it had cost a quarter of a million dollars and weighed two thousand pounds.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
