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How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet - "Until now, human beings have been spreading, from our beginnings in Africa, out across the globe—slowly at first, and then much faster. But a period of contraction is setting in as we lose parts of the habitable earth. Sometimes our retreat will be hasty and violent; the effort to evacuate the blazing California towns along narrow roads was so chaotic that many people died in their cars. But most of the pullback will be slower, starting along the world’s coastlines. Each year, another twenty-four thousand people abandon Vietnam’s sublimely fertile Mekong Delta as crop fields are polluted with salt. As sea ice melts along the Alaskan coast, there is nothing to protect towns, cities, and native villages from the waves. In Mexico Beach, Florida, which was all but eradicated by Hurricane Michael, a resident told the Washington Post, 'The older people can’t rebuild; it’s too late in their lives. Who is going to be left? Who is going to care?'"

 

Who Killed Tulum? - Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.

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Uploaded on November 20, 2018
Taken on December 8, 2006