The people who’d designed it had been thinking in terms of a century or more, she said, but the politicians who’d had to approve the enormous costs couldn’t see any further than the next election cycle. If the planet had been run by a world government able to ruthlessly mobilise people and resources, global warming and climate change might have been reversed. Instead, efforts to fix them had been doomed by the same short-sightedness and competing national interests and jealousies which had delayed attempts to cut the amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pumped into the
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