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Everyone deals with uncertainty differently, and never has there been a more uncertain time in our collective lives. During a recent zoom meeting, Christine and I – long-time colleagues and more recent friends — realized pretty quickly that one of us was the type who were imagining and preparing for catastrophe long before one struck, and the other was the wait and see, go about your business, react only to worsening circumstances type.
Kibera, about four miles outside of Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest urban slum in all of Africa. About the size of New York’s Central Park, it is estimated that somewhere between 700,000 and 1 million people live within Kibera’s tin-roofed, mud-caked structures, and travel its rutted, ravaged byways and narrow dirt roads. (The 2009 government census estimates are much lower, at less than 200,000).
Sea water doesn’t freeze at 32 degrees like fresh water, so can remain liquid while even colder, and the Southern Ocean in Antarctica is often colder than any other body of water humans normally encounter.
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