How do we fight poverty without wrecking the planet?

Grist
By Nathanael JohnsonDec 15, 2016, 7:00 am147 pts
In the 12,000 or so years since humans invented agriculture (the exact date is up for debate), we’ve only managed to come up with one proven method for moving large masses of people from poverty to prosperity: growth. The problem with that? Growth is also cooking the planet. The escalator out of poverty runs…

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