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Someone once observed that, ‘It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark’. But Noah was a man who listened! Many of today’s leaders are not listening or, if they are, seem inclined to deny what they hear.
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Ian Brown, ‘Energy Subsidies in the United States’, Energy Pricing: Regulation, Subsidies and Distortion, Surrey Energy Economics Centre Discussion Paper No. 38, University of Surrey, Guildford, March, 1989.
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MacNeill, J. (1991). A Commentary on: The Politics of Prevention. In: Myers, N. (eds) Tropical Forests and Climate. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3608-4_29
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