"Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality."
— Al Gore

January 1, 1970

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"Without a Trace" (review of The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert), New York Times Sunday Book Review, 10 February 2014, page BR1