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Simon's avatar

As ever Adam a really interesting and well thought out piece. However I fear that your optimism, however well researched and interpreted will sadly fall upon fallow ground. As avarice in the top percentile continues it's upward trend and it's ability to purchase the world's media that happily pushes it's viral "nothing to see here, move along" message to the uninterested/gullible masses I fear we in the "advanced world" will only understand fully the consequences of our actions once we are through the door with no way back.

Sorry to be the merchant of doom but I really never thought I would see such blatant authoritarianism, (e.g. Trump, Johnson et.al.), rear it's ugly head around the supposedly civilised world the way it has and the obvious greed for wealth and power and the bear faced lies that go with it just fill me full of dread for my children's future.

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Andy @Revkin's avatar

Great piece. I began writing on the #climatedivide in The New York Times in 2007. Http://j.mp/climatedivide But you left out a critical fourth area of deep imbalance - in energy access. When you add that, the recent moves to stop financing all fossil development- even in Africa - can be seen as profoundly immoral. Even “planetary boundaries” pioneer Johan Rockstrom has made this point. https://twitter.com/revkin/status/1602346682045300737?s=46&t=NSdlg-25PEF03VHLsAWnjg

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