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Environment & Energy

Boomer

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1. Everyone is focused on the short-term emergency of COVID-19

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2020, 08:55 AM

May 2020

And I suspect this is a pattern that will continue. As more and more short-term problems arise, we'll lose sight of the long-term and perhaps even the ability to respond to the long-term as we grapple with short-term survival.

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