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Bruce Sterling
May 23, 2017 5:27 AM

Giant Hands Emerge From a Venice Canal to Raise Climate Change Awareness

*Handsome piece of enviro art. Too bad rising sea levels will wash it away.

I might live to see that happen, and I sure won't be happy

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