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Climate change: the inter-generational challenge

Graham Watson

20th February 2019

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Excellent Newsnight piece on how climate change might be the biggest inter-generational battle of the 21st century. It highlights the issue in the light of protests from many thousands of young people in the UK.

Climate change: the inter-generational challenge
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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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