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Feb 5, 2010 · A ny hope we have of containing the escalating climate crisis depends on getting to net zero, which will mean cutting greenhouse gas emissions drastically in the next few decades. Coal, gas and oil will have to be replaced with clean energy sources. In the language of climate policy, this is known as the green energy transition and is often presented as the latest in a …
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 24 · 26 December 2024
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Fourth Estate, 630 pp., £30, October 2024, 978 0 00 812655 1
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‘I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges out of fifty years of discount furniture commercials,’ Matthew Rankin said at a recent screening of his movie Universal Language.I come from both countries, but it’s the furniture gag that struck home.
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In 1687, Newton’s Principia had put forward a revolutionary new hypothesis that eventually transformed science – a unified theory of motion, and of gravity, the invisible force that governed the universe. His book was written entirely in Latin, the international language of higher learning, and used complicated mathematical formulae that only the most advanced scientists could grasp.
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi. Penguin, 358 pp., £10.99, June 2024, 978 0 241 68555 6
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Contents · Vol. 46 No. 22 · 21 November 2024
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro. Penguin, 420 pp., £10.99, May, 978 0 14 199384 3
Eliot Weinberger · The Debate
P oor Don. He thought it would be an easy golf-cart ride back to the White House, rolling over the recumbent body of Sleepy Joe. Then the Dems pulled a switcheroo and suddenly he was faced with a middle-of-the-roader without much of a damaging paper trail, whose demeanour was the unlikely combination of tough prosecutor and warm human.