#Latest news with #TheFranklinStove:AnUnintendedAmericanRevolutionWashington Post03-03-2025ClimateWashington PostCan we invent ourselves out of climate change? Ben Franklin thought so.Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming book 'The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution,' from which this piece is adapted. The winter of 1740-1741 was miserable. Boston Harbor froze over. So did the Venice Lagoon. Crops died and famine reigned. Up to a fifth of Ireland's population might have died, a greater toll than for the 19th-century famine called the Great Hunger.
Washington Post03-03-2025ClimateWashington PostCan we invent ourselves out of climate change? Ben Franklin thought so.Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming book 'The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution,' from which this piece is adapted. The winter of 1740-1741 was miserable. Boston Harbor froze over. So did the Venice Lagoon. Crops died and famine reigned. Up to a fifth of Ireland's population might have died, a greater toll than for the 19th-century famine called the Great Hunger.
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