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    Dollars Versus Degrees

    Mar 01, 2022 4 minutes
    Review by Donald Worster

    FIRE AND FLOOD: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present

    BY EUGENE LINDEN

    Penguin Press, 336 pp., $28

    SINCE 2010, emissions of carbon dioxide have flattened in the United States and slowed worldwide to about 35 to 40 gigatons per year, half of which has been absorbed by land and sea. To keep the global temperature increase below two degrees Celsius, a flattening curve must become a steep reduction. This necessity is forcefully presented by Eugene Linden, a veteran writer for but his distinctive contribution is to ask why Americans have not paid enough attention to all the warnings. His answer is that powerful economic interests in the

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