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An Ever-Smaller Board - by Bill McKibben

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On which to play the human game

An Ever-Smaller Board On which to play the human game Bill McKibben Aug 18, 2023 180 26 29 Share West Kelowna, British Columbia, yesterday. I didn’t expect to love Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories—a lot of the towns of the far north always seem hunkered down to me, a collection quonset huts braced against the long winter. Yellowknife, though, was charming: I hadn’t been off the airplane three minutes before the northern lights broke through, a green wave cracking across the sky. The next morning I wandered the shores of Great Slave Lake, past houses perched on the roc

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