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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Environment</title>
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	<description>The geography of the future</description>
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		<title>Pick Your Apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/05/12/pick-your-apocalypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine has done a slideshow of 20 apocalyptic visions on film. 
Charted by plausibility and likelihood, they come out like this:


Plausibility &#8212; The plausibility that this kind of event would unfold in this way.
Likelihood &#8212; The likelihood that this kind of event will happen.



There are three broad categories in this list worth heeding:

The likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Sterling&#8217;s State of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/07/bruce-sterlings-state-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/07/bruce-sterlings-state-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Bruce Sterling offered his &#8220;State of the World 2010&#8221; on The Well this week.  A few excerpts follow.
As a result of &#8220;an emergent, market-driven global financial system that was all about a faith-based market fundamentalism,&#8221; he says, 
we&#8217;ve ended up with our current &#8220;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8221; Pottersville, where Rupert Murdoch plays our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World in 2010: Climate Change and Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-climate-change-and-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/world-in-2010-climate-change-and-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The environment was prominent on the program of The Economist&#8217;s World in 2010 conference this week.  Some particularly interesting points:
Joe Lockhart, Founding Partner and Managing Director, The Glover Park Group:

The rest of world is going ahead on climate change. If the United States steps away from leading on climate change again, it will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carving Up Antarctica?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/03/carving-up-antarctica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/03/carving-up-antarctica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antarctica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fisheries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week Brendan Borrell suggested in the New York Times that it was time to reconsider the status of Antarctica.
Antarctica is now effectively an international, stateless, demilitarized zone, on the basis of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty.  Many countries have land claims, but they effectively put them aside when they sign the treaty, as most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian Stability: The Hunger Factor</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/07/nigerian-stability-the-hunger-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/07/nigerian-stability-the-hunger-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports another ominous factor for the stability of Nigeria. 
David Hecht writes that Nigeria &#8220;cannot feed its 140 million people, and relatively minor reductions in rainfall could set off a regional food catastrophe, experts say.&#8221;  Increased rainfall variability &#8212; which is a likely outcome of climate change &#8212; could cause this.
&#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Disappearing Islands?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/28/eight-disappearing-islands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/28/eight-disappearing-islands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endangered]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The website Treehugger suggests eight places &#8212; low-lying islands, more specifically &#8212; that will &#8220;soon&#8221; be uninhabitable due to climate change.
They are:

the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean
Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Carteret Islands (off PNG), and Majuro Atoll (Marshall Islands) in the Pacific
Lamu and Pate, Kenyan coastal islands
Bhola, in southern Bangladesh
Key West, off southern Florida

&#8220;Soon&#8221; is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geoengineering as a weapon</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/30/geoengineering-as-a-weapon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/30/geoengineering-as-a-weapon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Writing in Foreign Policy, Jamais Cascio writes that the geoengineering capabilities that might help the world fight climate change could also be turned into weapons. 
The offensive use of geoengineering could take a variety of forms. Overproductive algae blooms can actually sterilize large stretches of ocean over time, effectively destroying fisheries and local ecosystems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endangered: destinations endangered by climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/15/endangered-destinations-endangered-by-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/15/endangered-destinations-endangered-by-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Endangered]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post today covered travel destinations threatened by climate change.  They include:

Glacier Bay, Alaska
the reefs of Belize
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Scott&#8217;s hut, Antarctica
the low-lying Maldives islands
the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Arctic polar bears
the glaciers of Glacier National Park, Montana
the Outer Banks barrier islands, North Carolina	
Chan Chan archaeological site, Peru

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		<title>New geographies: cities fighting climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/10/new-geographies-cities-fighting-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/10/new-geographies-cities-fighting-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New geographies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post yesterday reported on another example of sub-national governmental action on climate change (seen also at the state/province level).
Some 522 mayors representing 65 million Americans have signed a climate change agreement in the face of federal foot-dragging on the issue.
One driver: a third of Americans in an April poll now say that climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans shift on climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/24/americans-shift-on-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/24/americans-shift-on-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a further sign that the United States may shift its stance on climate change, a Washington Post poll reveals widespread concern about the phenomenon:

70% of Americans want the federal government to do more about global warming, with 49% saying &#8220;much more&#8221;
33% say that global warming is the world&#8217;s &#8220;single biggest environmental problem,&#8221; up from [...]]]></description>
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