'Sleepwalking into catastrophe': Why the world needs to wake up to the climate threat

Madeleine Cuff
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Switch off the news and start worrying about the big picture problems, writes Madeleine Cuff

There's something quite disconcerting about being in a lift heading out of a building, minutes after hearing experts warn we are sleepwalking into an environmental catastrophe, and hearing two businessman...

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