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Climate change, more driving time, less fishing time
Posted by Bangor Daily News: None Given on November 12th, 2015
Bangor Daily News: “Only an appreciation of nature as a collection of specific threatened habitats, rather than as an abstract thing that is ‘dying,’ can avert a complete denaturing of the world.”
This observation by writer Jonathan Franzen nicely captures the challenge of understanding climate change’s impacts on nature. As Franzen also notes, climate change is so big that it’s everybody’s -- and nobody’s -- problem. To initiate change, we need to understand its impacts on a human scale.
In an effort to communicate...