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The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

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The Link Between the Microbes and the Climate Question

Farron: I think there's a very interesting set of papers in the book by Sharboni and Tim Mitchell. The superposition of the two world requires amazing changes in the economy, says Farron. Threat of that change is what accounts for maybe the populism in developed countries, he adds. In Africa, my question was about the link between the microbes. And so when I talk to people, for example, in Congo about a lot of people didn't believe Ebola was real, and they refused to take the vaccine.

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