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Meddling to mend the planet: techno-fixes to environmental problems

Physics World

In Under a White Sky: the Nature of the Future , Pulitzer-prize-winning author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert masterfully traverses this tightrope, combining curiosity with an acerbic wit to explore humanity’s obsession with controlling nature. As we discover, even the best-laid plans frequently return to kick us in the teeth.

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Dickinson College To Recognize Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska With Rose-Walters Prize For Environmental Activism

PA Environment Daily

During Senator Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential run, she stepped up as an advisor on Native affairs and was the lead author of his Native policy platform. After earning a B.A., and a magna cum laude J.D. from the University of Minnesota, she began her work as a tribal attorney in Washington, D.C.,

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Dickinson College To Host International Climate Symposium Oct. 24-26

PA Environment Daily

Internationally known climate scientists, ecologists, agronomists, economists, policymakers and other experts on climate change risks and responses will gather at Dickinson College in Cumberland County for a three-day symposium featuring authors of the newest reports from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Climate Feedback Unscientifically Confuses "Disasters" & Weather Events & Endorses Pseudoscientific Claim That We Are in A "Sixth Mass Extinction"

Environmental Progress

Climate Feedback authors introduce pseudoscience into their “fact check”. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Sixth Extinction, acknowledges the failure of the species area model in her book. Kolbert says the model’s failure “should be chastening to science writers perhaps even more than to scientists.”