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Ben Bristol

Op-Ed Contributor — Class of 2017

Number of articles: 1

First Article: April 7, 2017

Latest Article: April 7, 2017

Insidious threat of climate change demands urgent attention

By now, sentences like “Our planet and human civilization teeters precariously on the edge of an unfathomable ecological abyss” are banal and, at worst, elicit an ironic smile. We have good reason to believe that climate change might destroy the foundations of our political and economic systems in a matter of decades, but for some reason it doesn’t feel urgent.

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