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Dave Olsen
Dave Olsen

Nov 10, 2020

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How Lost Opportunities Left us one More Crack at Climate Change

Our stifling inability to plan ahead and make long-term investments mean that there is now a narrow window for radical change.

Humans just aren’t very good at dealing with the future.

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Dave Olsen

Dave Olsen

Political and policy analysis | Operations Director, politika.org.uk | Student, University of Oxford | twitter.com/dave_olsen16

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