Death by GDP - how the climate crisis is driven by a growth yardstick

Serge Pierre Besanger
Published
Dec 21, 2019, 5:00 am SGT

The marathon Madrid COP 25 climate summit has wrapped up with hardly anything to show for it, proving once again that the leading polluters of the world will do nothing to prevent rising global temperatures from hitting irreversible tipping points.

Currently, no nation in the world has a credible strategy for dealing with the problem.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on December 21, 2019, with the headline 'Death by GDP - how the climate crisis is driven by a growth yardstick'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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