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“... This is the argument of More and More and More, the latest book by the French historian of science Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. As he makes clear, historical experience has little or nothing to teach us about the challenge ahead. Any hope of stabilisation depends on doing the unprecedented at unprecedented speed. If we are to grasp the scale of what lies ...”

“... but an acorn. Climate change continued to be a topic of debate throughout the revolution, as Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show in Les Révoltes du ciel: Une histoire du changement climatique XVe-XXe siècle.† Drought and desiccation were blamed on feudal avarice and aristocratic disregard for communal rights over the forests; there was ...”