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Rich People Are the Big Barrier to Stabilizing the Climate

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Rich People Are the Big Barrier to Stabilizing the Climate

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Efforts to curb climate change are failing. That’s partly due to the staggering contributions of the global elite.

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They’re the biggest barrier to pretty much every political and economical issue we’ve got about now.

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