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David Wallace-Wells on His Growing Optimism for the Planet’s Future

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Climate Change and Its Impact on the Global South

We are wealthy to day because we and those who came before us poisoned the planet and poisoned the future. The entire structure of global power and wealth is the result of the scarcity of this energy resource, hoarded by the countries that we now call the global north. We literally, with our daily lives, are poisoning the future of the planet. There was no history of economic growth before the discovery of fossil fuels? That's just fact. And that energy source has basically not been used by the global south, which to day, is already poorer than it would be without climate change. They've lost 25 % of their growth over the last couple of decades because of climate change, and the gap

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