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The gross world product was about $85 trillion in 2020 — so the sudden removal of hundreds of trillions of dollars from the budgets of the world is a serious thing. These are not businesses threatened with closure, but governments responsible for their citizens in ways that can’t go wrong without massive disruption and suffering, possibly to the point of complete breakdown. Failed states happen.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
At one point he ran into a party of suspicious Crow Indians, but he managed to win them over by repeatedly taking out and replacing his false teeth.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Our landscapes are changing in a cruel and ironic way: they’re becoming less permeable to wildlife at the precise moment animals need to move most. As our climate warms, beings large and small will be forced to relocate, either north or upslope, to remain within their “thermal envelope,” the band of temperatures in which they evolved.
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