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Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Connection to the Crabs

The first piece is about dupont. And this incredible story of a lawyer who is a defence lawyer for chemical companies in cincinnati, from a very conservative firm. He took on this case for a cattle farmer in west virginia who thought that the local dupont a company was poisoning his cattle. Nobody believed him. By the early nineties, they'd been making the stuff for since the fifties. They had acement, they had what was seen as a benign shese me, were relatively benign replacement chemical but broke down much more quickly. So dneon, business as usual. Just just the sort of fear of some slight alteration in their a, their business plan that

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