New York is an environmental Armageddon
On all sides the urban machine is operating at full tilt, churning out volcanic volumes of steam and fumes.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Simon Armitage is the UK’s poet laureate. He writes a monthly nature column for the New Statesman.
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