COVID 19 MAY BE THE BOILING FROG WE NEED (MAR20)
19th March 2020

I remember referring to the boiling frogs analogy in speeches about 20 years ago.  Some of you may remember that it was used by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth to help us understand why the world is not doing enough to avert calamitous climate change. If you put a[...]

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