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Bill Fulkerson

Pristine environments offer a window to our cloudy past - 0 views

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    new study uses satellite data over the Southern Hemisphere to understand global cloud composition during the industrial revolution. This research tackles one of the largest uncertainties in today's climate models-the long-term effect of tiny atmospheric particles on climate change.
Bill Fulkerson

How Russia Wins the Climate Crisis - The New York Times - 0 views

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    "Climate change and its enormous human migrations will transform agriculture and remake the world order - and no country stands to gain more than Russia."
Steve Bosserman

Dark times call for brighter new visions of the world we want to see - The Next System ... - 0 views

  • The failure of traditional politics reflects the failure of our political-economic system and our traditional strategies. The old ways simply no longer work. Systemic crisis means that systemic change is ultimately necessary – no matter how difficult it may be. Beginning with community and building up, from diverse directions and working together in a new politics and a practical strategy of system-wide change ultimately offers the only serious response to a crisis of system-wide dimensions.
Steve Bosserman

Social Media's Globe-Shaking Power - The New York Times - 0 views

  • For people who like an orderly, predictable world, this is the scariest thing about Facebook; not that it may be full of lies (a problem that could potentially be fixed), but that its scope gives it real power to change history in bold, unpredictable ways.
  • One is the ubiquity of Facebook, which has reached a truly epic scale. Last month the company reported that about 1.8 billion people now log on to the service every month. Because social networks feed off the various permutations of interactions among people, they become strikingly more powerful as they grow. With about a quarter of the world’s population now on Facebook, the possibilities are staggering.
  • Thanks to the internet, now each person with once-maligned views can see that he’s not alone. And when these people find one another, they can do things — create memes, publications and entire online worlds that bolster their worldview, and then break into the mainstream.
Steve Bosserman

The future is mixed-race and that's a good thing for humanity | Aeon Essays - 0 views

  • If the history of life on Earth can teach us anything, it is this: as conditions change, species either adapt or become extinct. In our time of considerable environmental change, humanity should consider its options. No species, even the almighty Homo sapiens, can stop evolution completely. But we can choose to limit our capacity for ongoing biological adaptation in an effort to remain ever the same by keeping populations isolated. Of course, such decisions are not made by humanity as a whole but by individuals and governments. Nationalism and xenophobia, on the rise in the US and Europe, threaten to decrease genetic exchange between populations, stifling our ability to continue evolving and adapting.Alternatively, we can embrace immigration and globalisation in an effort to position ourselves for a brighter future.
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