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Despite a lot of cultlike futurist notions about “third wave electronic cottages” in which after breakfast white-collar employees contentedly slip into their basement cockpit module, turn on the video display terminal, and get to work without ever leaving home, the computer shows no sign of reducing the alienation of industrialized service-and-information workers in the foreseeable future.
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Later in February NatureScot published a report, Anticipating and Mitigating Projected Climate-driven Increases in Extreme Drought in Scotland, 2021 - 2040. Extreme drought events, the writers warned, could increase from an average of one every 20 years to one every three, and could also last up to three months longer than they have in the past. Water scarcity could impact crop yields, drinking water supplies, peat bogs and other wetland ecosystems.
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― Waters of Life: Fighting for Scotland’s Beavers
― Waters of Life: Fighting for Scotland’s Beavers
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