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Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Accessible Africa Almost Because Being Every Everywhere Except Farmers Fertilizer Increased Lakes Land More Much Nor Oceans Parts Plant Polluting Rivers Soil Some Use

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Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Artificial Automobiles Carbon Chairs Cozy Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Giddy Kings Lighting Modernity Our Powered Sit Us Years

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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Air Air Travel Different Limit Live Now Sudden Travel Tremendously World Would

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The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Activists Donald Donald Trump Environmentalists Front Groups Hands Interest Line Long Might Office Ordinary Ordinary People Over People President Queue Trump

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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Between Buyers Exchange Functions Global Goods Historically Interests Large-Scale Parties Private Sellers Served State Textbooks Tool Trade Two Which Willing

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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Accessible Alarm Bathroom Been Cameras Clocks Computer Controlled Electric Embedded Home Lights Long Major Mundane Networks Now Objects Power Remotely Scales Similar Soon Systems Telephone Video Which Will

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Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Abstract Against American Bureaucratic Cheer Chemicals Drinking Drinking Water Like Out Politicians Red Red Tape Regulations Specific Tape Terms Toxic Turn Water Who Willing

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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Embrace Inevitably Intent Leads Malign New New Technology Ordinary Ordinary People People Technology

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The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: About Absolute Consideration Each Ecology Economics Even Intellectual Isolated Nonsense Occupy Other Take Think Two Uncommon Versa Vice Vice Versa Way I Think

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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Asian Big Bunch Came Europe Gunpowder Innovations Occurred Paper Plow Road Shocks Silk Technological Via Whole

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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