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"We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change," said Lord Stern in a speech in
When it was first published, the Stern Review and its recommendations – zero-emission automobiles around the world by 2050, for example – brought plaudits and brickbats from the different sides of the climate change debate. A year and a half on from its publication, Lord Stern dismissed the doubters and renewed his call for urgent global action: "People who said this was scaremongering are profoundly wrong. If anything, I was too reticent. What we are playing for is the transformation of the planet," he said...
Painting of Cassandra by Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919), Wikimedia Commons
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