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Ecopunkt: Points of Environmental Vulnerability

Posted on September 05, 2008

This article was was written by Jamais Cascio in March 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.The Earth's environment, particularly its climate, is not a linear, obvious-cause and immediate-effect system. This has a number of implications, but the one that troubles many of us who pay close attention is the resulting potential for phase change shifts in the climate system, where seemingly-small perturbations lead to a major change in how the climate behaves (the classic example of this kind of change is a pile of sand with grains dropping down on th...

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