I wanted to share a formative moment that occurred for me back in 2018 when I received an email response from Dr. Michael Bender regarding a question I asked him about his Vostok ice core study.

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One of the reasons why some people don’t believe that climate change poses an existential threat to civilization is invariably because many of us quite reasonably assume that society would not knowingly destroy itself. Sadly, that just isn't the case. Let's see why.

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