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Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan

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The Importance of Climate Change

A lot of people thought COVID was a kind of wartime experience, states took on wartime powers. But it's not a war because as it were once its past, we reverted quite quickly to normal. War is a great equalizer, although some people get very rich at the end of it. Climate change is not an equalizer. We're exactly to be pessimistic. That's fine. Laughs, which is what they should have. Yeah. In retrospect. So is climate change the equivalent of Piketty's war then as an agent of change? So unfortunately, it's not.

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