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Reuben James Runquist is finally facing facts; at eighty, he is stuck with a retirement condo in an environment that is decidedly MAI (“not” in Thai) Shangri-La! The climate has “flipped”, global sea levels have risen seven meters, plagues have killed hundreds of millions, and worldwide transportation and commercial infrastructures have collapsed. Reuben is reduced to a subsistence existence in the high-tech but questionably secure “Panic Room” of his barricaded con… More >>
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Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale. Global warming is projected to have significant impacts on conditions affecting agriculture, including temperature, carbon dioxide, glacial run-off, precipitation and the interaction of these elements. These conditions determine the carrying capacity of the biosphere to produce enough food for the human population and domesticated animals. The overall effect of cli… More >>
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There is unequivocal evidence that fossil fuels are thickening the Earth?s atmosphere and warming the planet. Typically, the issue of climate change in the international political arena has been clouded partly by unitary greed, but primarily by an anachronistic viewpoint associating wealth and political power with fossil fuel industrialization. However, history has shown that a state’s international political power is correlated to their ecological infra… More >>