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Climate change policy is just good economics
2013-09-25 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: For the majority of the new century, Americans have largely stopped caring about the environment. In that time, America has suffered 9/11, two of the nation's four longest wars, the deepest depression in 80 years, increased inequality, and incompetent or fractured leadership. There's been a lot on the public mind. Our political and economic instability distracted the American public from pending global climate change. Policymakers saw economic and environmental stability as mutually exclusive--you...
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