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Just read "The Invention of Nature" by Andrea Wulf, an amazing biography of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.

Humboldt himself is not that well known anymore but he essentially laid the groundwork for our current conception of nature and environmentalism.

Humboldt traveled in the Americas and detailed the environmental catastrophe of colonialism in the early 19th century - his observations were strangely prescient and still relevant today.

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Cotopaxi, by Frederic Edwin Church, part of a series of paintings he made in honor of Humboldt's travels. The painting shows a volcano erupting with the sun setting nearby, and tropical plants in the foreground.
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Frank Aylward
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"When he listed the three ways in which the human species was affecting the climate, he named deforestation, ruthless irrigation and, perhaps most prophetically, the 'great masses of steam and gas' produced in the industrial centres."

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