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Slowing the Flow: Facing the drift into climate crisis
ALAN SIMPSON

AN OLD Greek proverb goes: “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.”

Britain has 5.5 million men and 6.5 million women who are of pensionable age. If each of us were to plant a tree this year, the UK would comfortably exceed the government commitment to plant 11 million trees by 2020.

As it is, there’s not a cat in hell’s chance of doing so.

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