As I write this, Hurricane Gustav is bearing down on the Louisiana coast, having forced nearly 2 million people to evacuate and rattling the nerves of a nation that still remembers the human suffering wrought by Katrina.
The threat is immediate. Anybody can see the massive vortex of wind and rain spinning its way toward the [...]
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Danger? What danger?
Altered States 2: The danger of shifting baselines
Go back in time for a moment and think about the world as you experienced it when you were 10 years old. Where did you live? What did it look like? How has that landscape changed since then? What about the animal and plant life?
Now imagine that same place 50 years before you were born. [...]
