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Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Away Branded Get Got Him Most People Planet Trump You

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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Climate Complex Feedback Global Interactive Kinds Loops System

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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.

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Topics: According Basically Change Climate Climate Change Dirt Done Dry First Form Island Land Last Mythology North Survived Until Up Years Years Ago

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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Arctic Bigger Bound Energy Global Ice Improving Increasingly Keeps Melting Mix Oil Part Price Rising Technology

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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Bacteria Broken Chemical Cotton Creating Dead Down Fertilizer Get Growing Highly Lakes Per Pounds Requiring Soil Some Toxic Usual Washed Way Zone

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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: According Add American American Family Average Average American Big Billion Car Clothes Consumes Day Dishes Face Family Lawn Many More Nevertheless Next Over People Predict Scientists Severe Shortages Social Than Wars Washing Water Watering Will You

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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Day Dispose Great Great One Idea Planet Will

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The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Amazon Because Come Continental Dynamics Earth Far Feedback Flows Influences Largest Loops Lot Out Partly Play Plumbing Remote Still System Understood

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Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Actually Africa Amazon America Connected Direction Flat Holds Joined Main Million Million Years More Most Ocean Opposite Opposite Direction Pacific Pacific Ocean Pancake River School South South America Stem Than Thought Toward Were Years Years Ago

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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Amplified Annual Area Atlantic Being Effects Even Event Falls Forest Frequency Fungus Global Global Warming Increases Instead Jersey Less Loss New New Jersey Rain Rivers Roots Runs Size Sucked Tree Up Warming Water

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 4th, 1946

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