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    The Gathering Storm

    Sep 03, 2019 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    WHEN WE SPEAK OF climate change, we count. Numbers chart sea-level rise, record highs, acreage incinerated by wildfire, extinct or endangered species. Numbers make sense to us. But they are always an abstraction. They dematerialize what they record. Life and death become data. Think of the numbers ticking higher (dollars, gallons) as you

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