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Advocates for climate action should stop defending the rich

Advocates for climate action should stop defending the rich

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Carl Beijer
Aug 08, 2017
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Emily Atkin, in an article for The New Republic, has written the latest in a recurring genre of articles defending rich advocates for action against climate change. A year or so ago, Vox gave us Rich climate activist Leonardo DiCaprio lives a carbon-intensive lifestyle, and that’s (mostly) fine; now, Atkin has set out to establish that Al Gore’s Carbon …

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