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Why science needs the humanities to solve climate change

  • Written by Steven D. Allison, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
Solving the world's climate problems will require many kinds of brain power.UC Irvine School of Humanities, CC BY-ND

Large wildfires in the Arctic and intense heat waves in Europe are just the latest evidence that climate change is becoming the defining event of our time. Unlike other periods that came and went, such as the 1960s or the dot-com...

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