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Attenborough: Paris talks will amount to nothing
NATURALIST icon Sir David Attenborough embarrassed politicians yesterday as he feared the Paris climate talks would not come out with a solution to the “hideous problem.”
The acclaimed broadcaster warned the 147 state leaders meeting this week that the scale of the problem would make a general agreement difficult.
His words were echoed by the leaders of the Labour and Green parties, who will be speaking in the French capital during the summit.
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