
How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | Steven Johnson
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Climate Change - What Are the Prime Movers?
Climate change is the unintended consequence of industrialization and increased longevity. There simply wouldn't have been enough people on the planet to emit enough carbon in the atmosphere to make a meaningful difference. In 18 50, more than half of all deaths recorded in new york city were young children, many of them killed by contaminated milk. On they figured out this thing for urban cattle where they couldn't feed them grass, so they would feed them a slop from whisky distilleries instead of grass. Brain idea, which produced this kind of blue tinted milk that was very dangerous, called swill milk. But i also think it's a mistake to focus exclusively on the march of science and the
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