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Rob, Glad I found your newsletter on SubStack. I find some of the best authors and best subjects via Medium as a backdoor of cross pollination and dog birding comment writers that often have similar subject interests and newsletters.

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Excellent telling of a complicated scientific subject for the rest of us that are not earth systems scientists.

I think that’s why Milan’s systems analysis of a “two legged” approach of climate study is so compelling yet so overlooked; western thinking is too linear regardless of the subject. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is easier to explain and bad actors (fossil fuels and their byproducts) more easily identified, debated and politicized. Earth science water-cycle effects, soil disturbance, large scale land use changes, industrialization and intensive agriculture - too many subjects in play in the system, not so easy to explain and too many potential bad actors, and thus not so easy to modify or reverse.

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