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The task is mind-numbingly immense, essentially requiring all national governments to engage in a rare co-operative effort to turn off the fossil fuel-based economic engine powering the industrial world and quickly transition to entirely different energy sources.

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BY LES WHITTINGTON
October 18, 2021

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