To the editor:
With ice caps melting, forests burning up, hundred-year floods now every five, hurricanes increasing, and heat waves upwards of 120 degrees, every year brings record ecological disasters. Scientists tell us that 130 million people now live in coastal areas that will soon be uninhabitable due to sea level rise.
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