The Defining Year of Humanity’s defining decade

11 February 2020 – The scientific data suggest it is our last opportunity to get in place the necessary measures to meet
essential carbon emission reduction targets. This immediate and nonnegotiable imperative for
human wellbeing, even survival, is a consequence of profound economic failure that traces to
deeply flawed economic theory. Continue reading (and for PDF to download)…

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