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“The Cambridge History” has a clear applied-history spirit to it in that it’s trying to understand what’s going on today by looking to the past. That’s really what we’re trying to do.

— Calder Walton

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Climate change and pandemics are linked; climate change will, scientists tell us, create more new disease outbreaks.

The U.S. military’s been talking about rising sea levels on bases since the 1970s, if not earlier.

I feel embarrassed to be an American today – this is disgraceful behaviour

...Climate change is now fused with geopolitics.

It’s incumbent for assessments /about climate change/ to be as widely read as possible so that we understand this, so that members of the public can hold policymakers’ feet to the coals about making changes. There’s no good if we find out in 50 years’ time, they were being briefed on this. The stakes are too high for that.

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