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Escape from climate change? Think again.

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Escape from climate change? Think again.

Plus: How fossil fuels benefit from the heatwaves they helped foment

Jonathan P. Thompson
Jul 9, 2021
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Escape from climate change? Think again.

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Fire in the Sky. Digital painting by Jonathan P. Thompson.

Over coffee this spring, sitting just a stone’s throw from the banks of a river already reduced to a trickle, some friends of mine told me they were preparing to escape from Western Colorado. It’s too dry, they said, too vulnerable to the effects of climate change. 

That was in April, before all …

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