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Climate Conflict
Is Environmental Science an Exact Science?



What are the roots that clutch,
what branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Son of Man.
You cannot say, or guess,
for you know only a heap of broken images. . . .
T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland


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Date: September 15, 2003
To: Innocent Smith
From: Roberto Rivera
RE: Notes from the Wasteland


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During his visit to Washington this summer, British Prime Minister Tony Blair voiced only one substantive disagreement with the policies of his host’s administration: He told a joint session of Congress that “climate change, deforestation, the voracious drain on natural resources cannot be ignored. Unchecked, these forces will hinder the economic development of the most vulnerable nations first and ultimately all nations.