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Monday, November 29, 2010

How Climate Change Threatens the American Farmer

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Photo: nosha. Flickr, CC
Too often, the conversation about climate change gets framed as a culturo-political debate: with liberals and scientists calling for action on one side, and conservatives and free market fundamentalists arguing against it on the other. The media is too often tacit in condoning or flat-out grooming this conflict, and as a result, the public loses out on well-rounded coverage on the topic, both from scientific and personal perspectives. So it's refreshing to see a firsthand account like this -- an American farmer's experience with (and fears of) climate change -- published in a leading national paper:
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