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Episode 27: Losing Alaska

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Shankar Vidantam talks with George Marshall, an environmentalist who tries to educate people about global climate change. Marshall believes that the biggest roadblock in the battle against climate change may lie inside the human brain. He says we are as human, very poor at dealing with issues that are in the future. We tend to be very focused on the short term and reduce the value of things happening further away.

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