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Is the Financial Crisis More Dire than the Climate Crisis?
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Is the Financial Crisis More Dire than the Climate Crisis?

If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.

Not even close.

If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.

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Authors

Joseph Romm

Senior Fellow

Department

Energy and Environment

Charting an equitable and just path to a 100 percent clean economy with net-zero climate pollution, protection of 30 percent of lands and waters, and community investments