I am not certain that this link to an article in the Financial Times will work (the FT is a subscription newspaper, but sometimes they allow access to some articles). If it doesn’t work, let me know and I will bring a photocopy of the article to class. But its title says a lot: “The Long Shadow of the 1930s” by Gideon Rachman. The article assesses the likelihood of the current economic turmoil in Europe leading to the chaos of the interwar period. Definitely creepy.
Canada announces that it does not intend to renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty designed to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases. Not an auspicious beginning to the climate talks that began today in South Africa.
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