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Why North America Is So Different Than Other Places

The ice age begins to change and you get a warming period. North America had been all this time this wall of white forbidding frozen desert like ice field. But with the warming, you now get a little bit of North America that becomes a little bit more available to you. And then this freezing water comes in. I always conceived of North America as this big bread basket. Yeah, so did I. It sounds like a death basket now. There's nothing left such a terrible place from North America,. We believe it more broadly enough to explore theer, the in the not-so-near future.

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