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1A Mote of Dust Suspended in a Sunbeam 2The Carbon Cycle: A 4.5-Billion-Year Story 3Biodiversity: What's Being Lost Before We've Even Found It 4Water: The Most Fought-Over Molecule on Earth 5Energy: The Master Resource 6The Soil Beneath Your Feet 7The Amazon Is Speaking and Nobody Is Listening 8The Ocean Nobody Sees 9Sacrifice Zones: Who Pays for Our Prosperity 10Climate Policy: The Most Expensive Game of Chicken in History 11The Green New Deal vs. Degrowth vs. Ecomodernism 12Technology Won't Save Us (But It Might Help)13Your Health Is the Planet's Health 14Greenwashing, Denial, and the Struggle to Communicate 15The Next 50 Years: Choosing Our Trajectory

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Bill McKibben: The Climate Crisis in 20 Minutes

Bill McKibben · 20 min

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