books
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Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is among the most famous examples of a secondary world, with Tolkien himself having coined the term. But beyond providing a backdrop for his books, Tolkien’s vast library of encyclopedic appendices presents a continuous narrative of Middle Earth’s fictional history. Read More
Climate Change
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This creates a dilemma. If we only mandate what is easy for companies to implement, emissions keep rising. If we pretend everything can be decarbonized quickly, climate policy collapses under its obvious failures. A serious approach has to accept two tenets at once: we need full decarbonization everywhere that it is possible, and we need honest promises from sectors where it is not. Read More
