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In case you thought too much CO2 was an unalloyed good.
If we want technology to be a force for good, here are a few things we should keep in mind before we weave it into every element of our carbon-zero cities.
Which themselves are a likely symptom of climate change.
Steve Hawk and Ami Vitale traveled to the mountains of West Virginia, small-town Michigan, and a reservation in Nevada to match human faces and stories with the cost of coal.
Recent evidence that growing a diversity of crops would solve many of Big Ag's problems is encouraging, but it will take a larger shift in the culture of commodity farming to see any real results.
But you really shouldn't bother.
But now more people are growing obese and getting diseases like cancer and diabetes.
But don't worry. We're sure fracking is perfectly safe.
Because you don't get to have nice things, is why.