“Not everyone would agree that the earth is round, but that doesn’t change the facts. Our planet is a system, we’ve knocked that system out of balance, and the system is correcting itself with increasing speed and violence. This isn’t a matter of ‘if’ but ‘how soon.’ Simply wishing the problem away solves nothing; we’ve done that for almost two centuries. There have been periods, tragically brief in my view, when the idea that we are guests of the planet had political clout. But the prevailing tendency of human society has always been to foul our own nest. Combine this with the consolidation
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