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After Climate Despair — The New Atlantis

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Guilt and austerity aren't working. What will?

After Climate Despair - The New Atlantis Essay Fall 2019 After Climate Despair The hope for a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change. What comes next? Matt Frost Subscriber Only Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version The Italian Renaissance humanist Girolamo Fracastoro is best remembered for his allegorical poem about syphilis. But his interests were expansive. Around 1550 he wrote a letter to Alvise Cornaro, a nobleman skilled in hydraulics, worrying that a crisis loomed for the Most Serene Republic of Venice. The rivers of the region, stripped of trees to feed t

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