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When some states are releasing prisoners, Republican stalwart Mitt Romney is calling for a prototype basic income and a poll is showing that within weeks 41 per cent of Americans have become more likely to support universal healthcare, it is fair to assume that tectonic plates are shifting. Quite li...

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Published in:New statesman (1996) 2020-04, Vol.149 (5514), p.29-29
Main Author: Cliffe, Jeremy
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:eng
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Summary:When some states are releasing prisoners, Republican stalwart Mitt Romney is calling for a prototype basic income and a poll is showing that within weeks 41 per cent of Americans have become more likely to support universal healthcare, it is fair to assume that tectonic plates are shifting. Quite literally, we are all surrounded by heating-up water as carbon reduction targets slip and societies do too few of the disruptive and daunting things needed to flatten that other curve: global temperature rises. [...]perhaps, we can at least begin to pay attention to them, like a frog in a pot suddenly noticing the heat. l Jeremy Cliffe is the New Statesman's international editor Across the world, the pandemic is forcing us out of our routines
ISSN:1364-7431
1758-924X