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Facing Reality Or Turning Away?

"Growth in the green economy, low carbon industries as it were, isn’t necessarily the success people suggest. There are indeed more cycles, but there are also more planes. There are indeed more electric cars, which you’ve discussed on the podcast, but there are also more petrol cars. No matter how many good things we do, unless we stop expanding the bad, there’s no chance of reversing the ecological, climate and societal breakdowns we potentially face. Low carbon industries within the fossil fuel driven economy, fuels the fossil fuel industries in my view. Money generated by green economies…

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