Can we cancel the apocalypse?

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Andrew Simms new book asks if we can avert disaster and comes up with a radical and optimistic answer

Andrew Simms' Cancel the Apocalypse - The new path to prosperity is a big, serious book about global economics and the unsustainable manner in which we all live. It's not quite Thomas Pikkety Capital big,...

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