The world will regret having spent so much time debating global warming while the real ecological threat, access to cheap safe water, becomes obvious.

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Perhaps now is the time for me to consider a more formal return to ecological study?

BBC: By Hugh Warwick

To be sure you are marking a fundamental change in human society borders on the impossible--such events happen just a few times a century, and (barring things like ecological collapse) rarely with anyone's ability to see at the time that anything has changed.

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