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Fighting a world on fire with fire

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How the Hell Did We Get Here?

How have we managed to keep sleep walking into this ecological abyss? I don't know if there ise one answer to it. But fundamentally, we are living in a mode of production and economic system where fossil fuls have been the energy base ever since the early nineteenth century. And when climate science matured in the early 19 nineties, e told government that you need to get rid of fossil fules. It was not about tinkering with some details in the system. It struck at the very marrow, at the very spine,. at the very core, the backbone of the whole economic system.

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