Fraser’s Penguins Offers a ‘Blue Marble’ View of Climate Change (Book Review)

Photo credit: Fen Montaigne In an age where information travels around the world in an instant—and moving people the same distance rarely takes more than a day—it’s easy to forget how foreign ideas of great scale and scope are to the human mind. While it’s easy for people to internalize and accept a concept like acid rain—specific emissions from factories in one place fall into the water downwind producing a measurable and nearly-immediate rise in acidity—it is much more difficult to grasp onto something like climate change, which is caused by actions around the world and has impacts measurable in decades,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fraser’s Penguins Offers a ‘Blue Marble’ View of Climate Change (Book Review)

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