Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
We have dozens of ideas for how to fix the problem, but we dare not implement them because doing so might undermine growth. And in a growth-dependent economy, that cannot be allowed to happen. Instead, the very newspapers that carry harrowing stories about ecological breakdown also report excitedly on how GDP is growing every quarter, and the very
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“That’s the recipe to mitigate collapse,” he says. “But nothing is really happening substantially. We are... See more