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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20060208
Author:Saltz, Jerry
ANDREA ZITTEL: CRITICAL SPACE
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Through May 27
A THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN
Robinson Crusoe and Mad Max by way of Walden Pond, Saint Augustine, and Greenpeace
The year 2005 was the hottest on the planet in recorded history; there is open water for the first time ever at the North Pole; the snows at the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro will probably disappear within 25 years. A power grid the size of Houston is being added to China every month; the United States, with only 4 percent of the world's population, emits more than 20 percent of the world's carbon. "Fifty years from ...
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