Governments appear not have understood the full importance of the climate change challenge. Yet, it would be possible to reduce rapidly greenhouse gas emissions while diminishing economic inequalities and avoiding the trap of a ‘punitive ecology’. For this, however, there is a need to dare think out of the box of mainstream economics, as its tools that have proven to be quite ineffective in dealing with this matter.
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