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The only thing climate change is cooling is growth

Worldwide income will be 19 per cent lower by 2049 than it would have been without global warming, according to a new study

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Worldwide income will be 19 per cent lower by 2049 than it would have been without global warming, according to a new study.

Worldwide income will be 19 per cent lower by 2049 than it would have been without global warming, according to a new study.

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Mark Gongloff

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Imagine you were running for king of the world on a platform of slashing economic growth by 20 per cent forever. You would be lucky to get your own family to vote for you.

Yet humanity insists on running the global economy on fossil fuels that are doing exactly that sort of damage. The good news is that we still have time to vote them out before they do even more.

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