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Can humanity address climate change without believing it? Medical history suggests it is possible

  • Written by Ron Barrett, Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College
imageMonster Soup, an 1828 political cartoon by William Health, shows a woman horrified by a magnified drop of Thames River water.Wellcome Images via Wikimedia

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change.

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