90 months and counting | Andrew Simms

With the clock running in the climate change countdown, post-
Enlightenment faith in technological fixes may not be enough

Ten months have passed since pointing out that we have, at best, 100 left before a new, far more dangerous phase of global warming begins. The "chatter" of concern is getting louder. But at the same time, the political system in Britain has been wracked and absorbed more by its own inadequacies than by this fundamental threat to civilisation.

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