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Earth: A tenant’s manual by Frank H.T. Rhodes, a guide to using Earth’s resources, is a nice idea but the end result is slapdash

IMAGINE you live in a home with heating and water systems that run themselves. Food gets delivered regularly, stale air is exchanged for fresh, and waste removed promptly. But lately, instead of working beautifully, warning lights are flashing at an alarming rate – yesterday it was too hot and today the water doesn’t taste so good. What to do? You pull out the instruction book.

Frank Rhodes had such a guide in mind when he wrote Earth:…

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