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The climate emergency is, among all those urgent and important priorities, the only one where it can be said: 'If we fail, nothing will matter,' writes Elizabeth May.

On Jan. 18, 2023, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered his latest distillation of threats. He called it a 'perfect storm' of galloping crises—war, pandemic, climate break down and identified the climate emergency as the threat to our survival, writes Elizabeth May. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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