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— 19 July 2023 —

With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth

Environment

We face an epochal, unthinkable prospect: of perhaps the two greatest existential threats – environmental breakdown and food system failure – converging, as one triggers the other.

George Monbiot

Read full article by George Monbiot in The Guardian

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