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Are we doomed?

December 2021 report in found more than half of the 10,000 people surveyed aged between 16 and 25 globally agree that “humanity is doomed”. Yet Dr Chris Brierley, a climate scientist at UCL, says it isn’t true. “We’re not doomed,” he told The Big Issue. “Society has shifted dramatically

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