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The First Empire
What if the most powerful legislator in any society is not a king, a parliament, or a constitution, but the very air we breathe and the soil beneath our feet? This was the radical proposition of Montesquieu, an Enlightenment thinker who argued that climate is the “first empire,” a silent, invisible force that shapes our passions, our character, and ultimately, the laws that govern us.
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Long dismissed as a deterministic curiosity, his theory is now staging an unnerving…
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