[MCN] Tax: 7 definitions: 3rd is applicable to species, rivers, forests, ecosystems, planet, mind

[Lance Olsen]

3. To subject to severe strain; draw upon heavily; load with a burden or burdens; as labor that taxes the brain.

Funk & Wagnalls new Standard dictionary of the English language. 1938 <https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2210745>
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2210745 <https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2210745>


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"The most likely way the climate could be influenced by either natural or artificial means seems to be 
through a trigger mechanism that ultimately changes the radiation balance ....  the burning of fossil 
fuels would presumably lead to more absorption of long-wave terrestrial radiation in the atmosphere 
and consequently to greater heating."

Abraham Oort.  "The Energy Cycle of the Earth," Scientific American. September 1970
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"The greatest disturbances of which we are aware are those now being introduced by man himself. 
Since his tampering with the biological and geochemical balances may ultimately prove injurious 
-- even fatal -- to himself, he must understand them better than today."

Bert Bolin. "The Carbon Cycle." Scientific American, September 1970
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“The atmospheric engine is subtle in it operation and delicate in its adjustments.  Extra inputs of 
energy …  can have significant and far-reaching consequences.”

Singer, Fred S. "Human Energy Production as a process in the biosphere.” 
Scientific American, September 1970.

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