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Humboldt Predicts Industrial Climate Impact

1:14:19–1:15:06 · 48s

Andrea Wulf explains how Alexander von Humboldt warned as early as 1800—and again in 1832—that human deforestation, irrigation, and industrial gases could destabilize Earth’s climate.

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