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TOMORROW: More permanent approaches, perhaps by stimulating shrunken follicles with growth proteins
We have converted woodlands and prairies to farmland virtually all over the globe. Our cities, suburbs and malls have paved over natural communities, and pollution and overfishing are rapidly destroying our rivers, lakes and oceans. As these ecosystems go down, we are losing perhaps 30,000 species of animals and...
No one can know. Perhaps our grandchildren, or their grandchildren, will know. But I, for one, decline to accept the end of the oceans, for to do so would be to accept the end of humanity. I see signs that we are starting to alter our course--laboriously, yes, barely...
If that happens, Europe will get very cold. Rome is, after all, at the same latitude as Chicago, and Paris is about as far north as North Dakota. More snow will fall, and the bright snow cover will reflect more of the sun's energy back into space, making life...
Worst of all, the experts believe, such changes could come on with astonishing speed--perhaps within a decade or less. And while we might have a great deal of trouble adjusting to a climate that gets 2[degrees]C (4[degrees]F) warmer over the next century, an ice age...