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‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm | Fifty years ago, Graeme Pearman travelled the world with six flasks of air to help prove CO2 in the atmosphere was rising (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] JoBo@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

The people who are doing the lobbying and dismantling have the best educations money can buy. This is a structural problem. It's not going to be solved by everyone being as clever and conscientious as you are.

[-] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Education is a structural problem.

Do you want corporate lobbyists to have less power? That would be great.

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