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SuperFreakonomics” has some ideas for reëngineering the planet.
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donaldab dnvWsdUATo be skeptical of climate models and credulous about things like carbon-eating trees and cloudmaking machinery and hoses that shoot sulfur into the sky is to replace a faith in science with a belief in science fiction. This is the turn that “SuperFreakonomics” takes, even as its authors repeatedly extoll their hard-headedness. All of which goes to show that, while some forms of horseshit are no longer a problem, others will always be with us.
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daniel perroneBOOKS review of “SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance” and “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.” In the late eighteen-hundreds, the most popular way to get around New York was a horse-drawn streetcar. By 1880, there were at…
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