“[…] Abrupt climate change may be normal in the planet's history, or, to state it differently, that the earth's [sic] climate is inherently very unstable.”

— James Howard Kunstler, book The Long Emergency

Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 5, p. 149.

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