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Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.
Dale Jamieson
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Dale Jamieson
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
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Sioux City
Iowa
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