How digital culture is reshaping our faces and bodies | Elise Hu (re-release)

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As cascading climate challenges reshape our world, the most resilient systems are ones we often overlook. Ecological futurist Tariq Al-Olaimy has seen this firsthand in disaster-stricken communities, where church basements, mosque yards and temple networks form a "spiritual infra ...  Show more

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