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Episode 40: Philipp Blom

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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Philip Blom talks with Louis Lapon about his new book, Nature's Mutiny. How the little ice age of the long 17th century transformed the west and shaped the present. We don't really know why this little ice age happened but we do know that it happened. The temperature drop of two degrees doesn't mean that everything becomes a little bit colder. It means that entire climate systems get changed.

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