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Fighting a world on fire with fire

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Climate Change and the Pandemic

There was a lot of talk, almost from the beginning of the pandemic, about this being this golden opportunity to implement the transition at long last. It seems to have come to naught. What we're looking at this year is a rebound back to business as usual. The climate movement allowed itself to be killed, or at least temporarily. And in the absence of a climate movement on the streets, with no popular pressure on these issues and no strong leverage from social movements, it's not that surprising that governments just continue as usual.

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