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"The University of Arizona is now running the Biosphere 2 facility that mirrors the different biomes of the Earth under a 3-acre enclosure. The facility includes a tropical rainforest, grassland savanna, saltwater ocean, mangrove wetland, and a farm. "

"Like the civil rights movement, environmentalism has changed the way we think. It has engendered a new respect for the natural world, an understanding of the delicate balance of life in our biosphere and mass engagement on the most important issue of all, climate change. Yet it has failed in a profound way. Advertisement As a movement ushering in solutions to halt or slow climate change, it has been catastrophically ineffective."