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A Climate of Folly

April 20, 2021

By Professor Chris Rapley, UCL (On the publication of the World Meteorological Organisation’s State of the Global Climate 2020 report published on 19th Apr 2021)   In her book The March of Folly, the US historian Barbara Tuchman defines Folly as ‘the pursuit of a policy contrary to the self-interest of the constituency or state involved.’ … Read more