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A 3°C world has no safe place

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The Economist

Publication Date
2021-07-22

In 1745, as the river Liffey, having broken its banks, clawed at the foundations of the house in which he sat, the young Edmund Burke experienced a strange, perverse thrill. The man who would go on to found modern conservatism drew inspiration from this experience in a later essay on the sublime, writing of the unmatched delight that terrible destruction could stir—provided that it is watched from a certain distance.

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https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/24/a-3degc-world-has-no-safe-place