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- Ursprüngliche Veröffentlichung
- 2014
- Jahr der Veröffentlichung
- 2014
- Verlag
- Milkweed Editions
Zitate
- Gleb Kotenkohat Zitat gemachtvor 5 Jahren
Since the 1980s, Almería in southern Spain has developed the greatest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares. Dubbed the ‘sea of plastic’, this Anthropocene landscape is remarkable not only because Europe’s driest desert now produces millions of tonnes of fruit and vegetables, but also because the greenhouses reflect so much sunlight back into the atmosphere that they are actually cooling the province. While temperatures in the rest of Spain have climbed faster than the world average, meteorological observatories located in the plastic expanse have shown a decline of 0.3°C per decade.5 It turns out that the plastic acts like a mirror, reflecting sunlight back into the atmosphere before it can reach and heat up the ground. At a local level, the plastic greenhouses offset the global greenhouse effect. - Gleb Kotenkohat Zitat gemachtvor 5 JahrenCity-dwellers have measurable brain differences, some of which may help urbanites handle stress and crowding, although disorders like schizophrenia are twice as common in city populations.24
- Gleb Kotenkohat Zitat gemachtvor 5 JahrenIn the course of a day, the average person in a Western city is exposed to as much data as someone in the fifteenth century would encounter in their entire life.
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