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theories, it is too late to avoid a global- warming disaster. For if it's true that our best option is to suppress carbon-dioxide emissions with the Kyoto protocol at a cost of hundreds of billions of pounds, then that's already a disaster by any reasonable measure. And those measures aren't even pur
entalists. But the organisers were also struck by the heartbreaking singularity of so many of the cases. A marine biologist in a former republic of the Soviet Union angered government officials by studying local shellfish populations. An African academic was threatened after discovering that funds had been stol
that it's possible to arrange large human populations in ways that are inherently less waste- ful and destructive. MORE LIKE MANHATTAN In 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, representatives of most of the world's countries, after two and a half years of sometimes highly contentious negotiations, adopted a protoc
st ef- fective way for a country to cut its carbon output has been to suffer a well-timed industrial implosion, as Russia did after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991. The Kyoto benchmark year is 1990, when the smokestacks of the Soviet military- industrial complex were still blackening the skies. By the
theories, it is too late to avoid a global- wanning disaster. For if it's true that our best option is to suppress carbon-dioxide emissions with the Kyoto protocol at a cost of hundreds of billions of pounds, then that's already a disaster by any reasonable measure. And those measures aren't even pur
entalists. But the organisers were also struck by the heartbreaking singularity of so many of the cases. A marine biologist in a former republic of the Soviet Union angered government officials by studying local shellfish populations. An African academic was threatened after discovering that funds had been stol
Entities connected to both Kyoto and the Soviet Union

Jeffrey Epstein
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Joi Ito
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Tokyo
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Barack Obama
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John F. Kennedy
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Bill Clinton
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Marc Rich
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Joe Biden
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House of Representatives
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Vladimir Putin
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Julie K. Brown
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Prince Charles
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Stephen Hawking
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Prince Andrew
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White House
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Donald Trump
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Samantha Power
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