The New Yorker, February 22, 2016
The Beyond-Two-Degree Inferno
“In Dante’s Inferno, he describes the nine circles of Hell, each dedicated to different sorts of sinners, with the outermost being occupied by those who didn’t know any better, and the innermost reserved for the most treacherous offenders. I wonder where in the nine circles Dante would place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth in the name of economic growth, accumulating an environmental debt by burning fossil fuels, the consequences of which will be left for our children and grandchildren to bear? Let’s act now, to save the next generations from the consequences of the beyond-two-degree inferno.” — Marcia McNutt, Science, July 3, 2015
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(Contributed by Alexandra Basili, FSU 2019)
10th Circle of Hell: iTunes
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10th Circle of Hell: DMV
This image was posted to FunnyJunkSite.com, labeling the Department of Motor Vehicles as the tenth circle of hell.
Hillary’s Hell
“When the story of Hillary Clinton’s second run for the presidency is written, it may come to resemble Dante’s Inferno more than a customary campaign book. We’ve seen greed — lots of greed (the fourth circle). We’ve seen the destruction of material, the failure to live up to her agreement with the State Department and misleading tax returns from the Clinton Foundation. In Dante’s hell, the corrupt politicians got to the eighth circle. We’ve seen flashes of anger (“At this point what difference does it make!”) — that’d be the fifth circle.” [. . .] –Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post, May 14th, 2015.
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