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Preamble

Paying the Piper

By Lewis H. Lapham

Acquiring an acquaintance with nature when capitalism has put its future at risk.

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Essay

A Climate of Change

By Philipp Blom

How the Little Ice Age ushered in the modern world.

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Essay

If the God Shall Not Send Rain

By Thomas Meaney

The history of climate refugees.

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Essay

In the Shadow of Caesar

By Kyle Harper

On the volcanic eruption that set an ominous stage for the death throes of the Roman Republic.

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Photograph of the flower clock in the Jardin anglais, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012, by Cayambe. Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Essay

Out of Time

By Astra Taylor

Listening to the climate’s clock.

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