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'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming. But this is because he is a city boy.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Because
Believe
Boy
City
Donald
Donald Trump
Ecological
Even
First
First Thing
Global
Global Warming
He
Mind
Sensitivity
The First Thing
Thing
Think
Trump
Warming
You
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
According
Add
American
American Family
Average
Average American
Big
Billion
Car
Clothes
Consumes
Day
Dishes
Face
Family
Lawn
Many
More
Nevertheless
Next
Over
People
Predict
Scientists
Severe
Shortages
Social
Than
Wars
Washing
Water
Watering
Will
You
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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Arctic
Bigger
Bound
Energy
Global
Ice
Improving
Increasingly
Keeps
Melting
Mix
Oil
Part
Price
Rising
Technology
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Acres
Bears
Before
Being
Billions
Communities
Consider
Each
Each Year
Feet
First
Forest
Forests
Home
Make
Moose
Nation
Northern
Off
Ontario
Paper
Rip
Some
Stuff
Summertime
Three
Toilet
Toilet Paper
Well
Wolves
Year
You
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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Apart
Cloud
Coming
Constantly
Elephants
Emotional
Feeling
Forgotten
Highly
Immediately
Lasting
Longer
Moment
Out
Over
Overhead
Than
Whatever
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Ancient
Arrived
Before
Being
Changed
Course
Destructive
Different
Elephants
Existence
Fundamentally
Human
Living
Long
More
Much
Out
Plane
Predatory
Scene
Something
Sustainable
Way
Worked
World
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Amplified
Annual
Area
Atlantic
Being
Effects
Even
Event
Falls
Forest
Frequency
Fungus
Global
Global Warming
Increases
Instead
Jersey
Less
Loss
New
New Jersey
Rain
Rivers
Roots
Runs
Size
Sucked
Tree
Up
Warming
Water
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Above
Alaska
Arctic
Canada
Circle
Denmark
Just
Just One
Lies
Meeting
North
North Pole
Norway
Only
Orange
Pole
Roughly
Russia
Sea
Segments
Sweden
Them
Top
Were
World
Would
Would-Be
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In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Around
Couple
Days
Dozen
Feathers
Her
Married
Three
Uganda
Village
Were
While
Wife
Yellow
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In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Continents
Encountered
Three
Travels
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In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
America
Built
Clubs
Communities
Doing
Exclusive
Families
Game
Get
Golf
Live
Looking
Nice
Place
Raise
Started
Taking
Tennis
Up
Well
Were
Who
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Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Actually
Africa
America
Connected
Direction
Flat
Holds
Joined
Main
Million
Million Years
More
Most
Ocean
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Pancake
River
School
South
South America
Stem
Than
Thought
Toward
Were
Years
Years Ago
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Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Around
Been
Ended
Got
Million
Million Years
Nature
Right
Since
Which
Years
Years Ago
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No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Back
Began
Centuries
Complete
Game
Golfer
Journey
Mecca
Pilgrimage
Where
Without
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Adaptive
Any
Around
Dozen
Easily
Forest
Forests
Humans
Met
More
Move
Only
Other
People
Rain
Reduced
Size
Smaller
Species
Than
You
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Day
Dispose
Great
Great One
Idea
Planet
Will
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Climate
Complex
Feedback
Global
Interactive
Kinds
Loops
System
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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
According
Basically
Change
Climate
Climate Change
Dirt
Done
Dry
First
Form
Island
Land
Last
Mythology
North
Survived
Until
Up
Years
Years Ago
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The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Because
Come
Continental
Dynamics
Earth
Far
Feedback
Flows
Influences
Largest
Loops
Lot
Out
Partly
Play
Plumbing
Remote
Still
System
Understood
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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
Bacteria
Broken
Chemical
Cotton
Creating
Dead
Down
Fertilizer
Get
Growing
Highly
Lakes
Per
Pounds
Requiring
Soil
Some
Toxic
Usual
Washed
Way
Zone
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