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Geography: Economics and The Environment Part 1: The Cost of Climate Change
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I'm going to start this series off with a pretty direct thesis: Our current system economically incentivizes civilization to cause much, if not most, of the environmental damage it does to our planet, and that in order to mitigate or heal that damage, we're going to need to address the underlying economic causes directly. We're going to start this series off with the biggest (and, in some ways, one of the easier) environmental crises to examine on an economic basis: climate change.
Geology: The Bone Island Honey Hole : Fossil Hunting on Florida's Peace River
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Photo : the view downstream on the Peace River, as seen from the boat ramp. Hunting the dark waters and sandy banks of Florida's Peace River - in search of ancient bones, teeth, and artifacts.
For a span of three years, I had access to a large stretch of private property along on undeveloped section of the Peace River. This area had no residential or commercial development anywhere near it, and the only man-made things in the vicinity were phosphate mines and large citrus farms. The phosphate mines are here because of the presence of the Bone Valley Formation. Bone Valley is a phosphate-rich region of Florida that is also known for it's world-class deposits of fossi...
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