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Randy Chatterjee's Blog – May 2011 Archive (1)
A turning-point we miss at our peril
We have the choice of burning all the oil left and hacking down all the remaining rainforests - or saving humanity
by Johann Hari
Sometimes, there are hinge-points in human history – moments when we have to choose between an exuberant descent into lunacy, and a still, sober voice offering us a sane way out. Usually, we can only see them when we look back from a distance. In 1793, the great democrat Thomas Paine said the French…
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