Resolving global warming and poverty are both pressing and urgent

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roding the conditions that lead to poverty and instigating steps the slow global warming are humanity’s most pressing and urgent problems.



Jonathan Symons.

Resolving one without tackling the other is socially irresponsible and any workable solution can only be arrived at through an intense, and honest, rethinking of human behaviour.

A Friend of The Conversation and a lecturer in International Relations at Macquarie University, Jonathan Symons, shares his thoughts about the use of coal, renewables and poverty – read his story: “Coal isn’t good for humanity, but renewables aren’t the only answer to energy poverty.”