Science Fiction

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…ification is always worth a few laughs. If you want a real language hack then read it: Mayhem in ce Klasrum by by Dolton Edwards from Isaac Asimov's 'The Golden Years of Science Fiction' http://www.english-zone.com/index.php?page=1114&pid=81

…msayers were worried about something they called the 'greenhouse effect.'" I picked up a strange anthology from 1971 for classroom use, Science Fiction: The Future [ISBN 0155786504], from a street vendor a couple days ago. Here is an excerpt from "The Human Race Has, Maybe, Thirty-Five Years Left" by David Lyle, originally appearing in 1967 Esquire : "Dr. Barry Commoner reported recently (in his book, Science and Survival ) that the burning of fuels has caused the carbon-dioxide content of the earth's atmosphere to rise fourteen percent in the past century. This has produced a general warming effect on the atmosphere. The President's [Johnson, I suppose] Science Advisory Committee concludes that this warming may begin melting the Antarctic ice cap by the year 2000 (raising sea levels four feet a decade and, of course, finally inundating h…