Fifty Degrees Below
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Extreme climate change looms. Another Ice Age could be imminent. The last time it happened, eleven thousand years ago, it took just three years to start.,,The good news is that Frank Vanderwal is part of a massive international effort to restablise Earth’s climate. At least he refuses to feel helpless before the indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America….Read More
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