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Imagine what's to come. The pine beetle infestation is just one example of global warming's present danger. It also represents the unique challenges that warming will pose for land conservation managers on the front lines of the battle against it. Generations of American conservationists have fought to preserve wildlife and to keep nature pristine in the face of a growing population and pollution. To a remarkable extent, they've succeeded - almost 16% of the entire landmass of the U.S. is protected, and the Endangered Species Act has helped save countless animals from extinction. But global warming threatens...
...risk,” said close friend Aprille L. Lucero ’83. “Brenda would get this ‘Okay, I’m game’ look on her face—but only after she made sure she understood the level of danger she was accepting...
...didn’t feel personally in danger at that moment,” said Block, recalling the episode. “People have said when they listen to me narrate what’s going on that I sounded remarkably calm and maybe I was in shock, or maybe it was just because I hadn’t seen buildings falling down around...
...meantime, there are more immediate economic minefields to navigate. Inflation, for example, is surging in cities like Doha and Dubai, driving up the price of everything from food to office space. Nobody is hurt more than the Gulf's millions of ill-paid migrant workers, and this exacerbates the danger of growing labor unrest. One measure that Gulf countries are considering to dampen inflation: a dismantling of the peg that ties their currencies to the beleaguered U.S. dollar...
Rescorla implicitly understood that he could turn office workers into survivors. He respected the ability of regular people to do better. He understood the danger of lethargy, the importance of aggressively pushing through the initial stupor and getting to action. He had watched employees wind down the staircase in 1993, and he knew it took too long...