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In December 1973, Spokane held a massive recycling drive and featured the cans collected in a Christmas tree.
The “butterfly effect” describes the phenomenon that even small actions can have vast consequences. The effect was first described in 1972 by meteorologist Edward Lorenz, who discovered a minuscule alteration could drastically change the results of his weather simulation. He used the metaphor of a butterfly’s gently fluttering wings having the power to spur a distant tornado.
The idea that small
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