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The Overview Effect

Grist

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

None of them were ever to be seen or heard from again until the wreck was found at the bottom of an Arctic bay in 2016, aptly named Terror Bay. Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents.