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We Can Crush Carbon Emissions Without Crushing the Economy
Clean investments are creating a feedback loop.
The future is now.
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It’s always seemed inescapable that the cost of today’s economic growth is a befouled environment for future generations, who unwisely opted not to be born earlier. But increasingly there’s hope that material wealth and environmental stewardship can coexist. We may be able to have our cake and eat it, too, in other cliched words, while also not drowning or being on fire.