Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo brings her data-driven precision to the local weather disaster — and the numbers are damning. Whereas world leaders haggle over funds at infinite summits, rising temperatures will kill tens of millions within the poorest nations by the tip of this century. She calculates the staggering price of rich nations pumping greenhouse gases into the environment, proving that getting billionaires to pay their fair proportion in taxes is one of the simplest ways to cowl these damages.
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