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Swords into green ploughshares

This summer we had Al Gore's excellent Film on global warming: 'An Inconvenient Truth'. Last week, the UK Government's publication of the Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change should convince any remaining doubters. Global warming is a dire threat which we ignore at our peril.

Sir Nicholas Stern, currently chief advisor to the UK Treasury and previously Chief Economist at the World Bank---a post once held by Joseph Stiglitz---has written a long, detailed report which comes to ...

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