[Unedited] Robert Macfarlane with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Beginning Unburial Journey
Am, took six or seven years to finish. What overtook me was a sense that the underland was rising to the surface in this restless earth and are hastening the restlessness of arond ourselves. Perma frost is no longer perma. It is melting and slushing. And as it does so, it's releasing ancient methane deposits. Its releasing the bodies of reindeer killed by anthrax,. The spares are alive and in the air again, and setting off epidemics. An american cold war missile base in the northwest of greenland is rising to the surface of the ice cap. But now snow melt is exceeding snow fall, and so it's coming to...
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