Forget what you think you know about American attitudes to climate action

Tom Chivers
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Tom Chivers reflects on new polling that suggests the average American consumer is concerned about climate change, whatever President Trump says to the contrary - and corporate leaders are responding

Americans don't care about the climate. That, at least, is the sort of background assumption that most of us operate on; sure, a few West Coast hippies and lycra-clad New York cyclists do, but for the...

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