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Absolutely Revolting
Climate Change

David Karoly reviews 'The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change' by Ross Garnaut

by David Karoly •
November 2011, no. 336

Climate change is often framed as a number of battles: between science and opinion, sustainable development and economic growth, government control and individual freedom, or environmentalists and business leaders. All of these are simplifications of the complexity involved in our modern world’s developing adequate responses to human-caused climate change.

 


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