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Month: October 2021

“Boiling the ocean”

I recently heard someone giving a talk, use an expression that I hadn’t heard in some time, referring to a task of overwhelming scale as “like boiling the ocean”. In this age of climate change, could we agree that boiling the ocean no longer seems like such a daunting task, much less a paradigmatically desireable goal?

Author steinsaltzPosted on October 13, 2021Categories SocietyTags climate change, languageLeave a comment on “Boiling the ocean”

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