The Other Cold War.
In: Nation, Jg. 313 (2021-10-04), Heft 7, S. 40-43
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To deal with the water bursts, they employed the permafrost: They froze earth on purpose, creating "frozen earth belts" to route potential overflows away from construction sites and other critical infrastructure. He was a radical first, a scientist second, one might say; and indeed, he reframed the issue of frozen earth in terms of the Marxist dialectic, defining permafrost as the product of a "'struggle' between frozen earth and water." Would the Zimovs' experiment, a kind of environmentalist Jurassic Park, count as an example of what Chu has in mind, an approach to permafrost that moves away from the "time bomb" narrative toward something less reactive and more adaptive?. [Extracted from the article]
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The Other Cold War.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | WILSON, JENNIFER |
Zeitschrift: | Nation, Jg. 313 (2021-10-04), Heft 7, S. 40-43 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
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ISSN: | 0027-8378 (print) |
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