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Non-Fiction

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S/V Loner

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1. I am convinced that the scientist worse case scenarios are...
Sun Aug 4, 2024, 02:54 PM
Aug 2024

going to be closer to the best case scenarios when all is said and done. I keep thinking about the butterfly effect and I don't think anyone can fathom just how interactive and reliant on other forces our climate actually is. The truth is that they can't accurately predict weather a week out because of how complicated it is let alone decades. I remember last summer a comment from someone in NYC's climate task force saying the wildfire smoke from Canada was not even on their planning radar.
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells had a major impact on me.

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