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8.1 A climate engineer. (fleming, “the climate engineers”)
“Ecohacking” sounds both too small and too electronic to cover the field
of geoengineering. We are all ecohackers, as was the first person to cut down
a tree with an axe. In traditional English, hackers are literally those who chop
up the Earth, or figuratively those who mangle words or sense. In the computer
age, “hacker” is slang for an enthusiast who considers programming an end in
itself or, more subversively, who seeks to gain unauthorized access to computer
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