From the pandemic to global warming: why we need Sustainable Development Goals

If we are to sustain human civilization, not only must we make changes at an accelerated pace, we must also recognize that they are within our reach.

In the same way that COVID-19 has revealed itself to be a threat that ultimately requires a co-ordinated global response, addressing the warming of our planet will require national policy responses based on a globally co-ordinated strategy, writes Joseph Ingram.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY JOSEPH INGRAM

November 26, 2020

The recent assertion on the streets of Washington, D.C., and Toronto by libertarians and Donald Trump supporters of the right to behave as they wish—irrespective of their responsibility to fellow citizens in the face of a deadly pandemic that has killed more than a quarter of a million in the U.S....

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