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Climate change is really about prosperity, peace, public health and posterity – not saving the environment

  • Written by Ezra Markowitz, Associate Professor of Environmental Decision-Making, University of Massachusetts Amherst
What will it take to get people to connect to the climate change story?mauro mora/Unsplash, CC BY

The story of climate change is one that people have struggled to tell convincingly for more than two decades. But it’s not for lack of trying.

The problem is emphatically not a lack of facts and figures. The world’s best scientific minds...

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