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Societies 21 min

The Monsoon Is Balanced on a Razor

Two billion people fed by a temperature gap you could measure at home.

One of the most powerful climate systems on Earth runs on a temperature difference so narrow it is barely there. The same physics that makes the monsoon strong is what makes it easy to break, and human activity is now leaning directly on that knife-edge.

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