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Climate change: historians will look back & ask 'why didn't they act?'
2014-06-13 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Most historians think about the past. Some study the present. Very few, it has to be said, write about the future. But Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard professor in the history of science, believes that our inertia in the face of climate change will puzzle academics for centuries to come. The historian of the future will look back on today and ask, what happened? Why didnt they act on what they knew? she says in her sunny office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, surrounded by rocks that speak of her own...
Historians preserve the history of East Lancashire's footwear industry
2013-10-01 19:34:55| Footwear - Topix.net
HISTORIANS are now looking to preserve the story of the Rossendale Valley's footwear industry before it is too late.
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Pipelines as nation-builders? Historians dubious of railway comparisons
2013-08-18 14:55:25| Energy - Topix.net
To hear some proponents of the Energy East project tell it, when the taps open on the $12-billion oil pipeline the moment will be as significant as when the last spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway almost 128 years ago.
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Pipelines as nation-builders? Historians dubious of railway comparisons
2013-08-17 23:22:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
To hear some proponents of the Energy East project tell it, the moment the taps open on the $12-billion oil pipeline will be as significant as when the last spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway almost 128 years ago.
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Pipelines as nation-builders? Historians dubious of railway comparisons
2013-08-17 20:58:10| Railroads - Topix.net
To hear some proponents of the Energy East project tell it, the moment the taps open on the $12-billion oil pipeline will be as significant as when the last spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway almost 128 years ago.
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