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313: Climate Apocalypse

The Rest Is History

CHAPTER

The Legacy of Empire and the Reaction Against Empire

The West has done quite well in the last 30 years of reducing our emissions. We've had a head start on all of that, and I think it's not that let's now wag our finger at India, China,. It's we're all in this together. There are not that many themes in history that are truly global, but climate is obviously is obviously one of them. And so the challenge of being able to factor in what our contribution should be. If you ask an economic historian like me, you'd say you've got to be prepared for high costs. That's the way to try to clean things up.

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