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Triumph of the north or technological salvation?

By Chris Mooney

22 September 2010

The World in 2050 predicts nations fringing the Arctic will boom, while another book, 2030, suggests that technology will sustain the unsustainable

FOR the investing set, it’s a kind of ritual. Everyone waits to see which stocks Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, has bought in the last quarter. Then they pile in, following the oracle of Omaha.

Should we do the same for Laurence Smith, author of The World in 2050? Not only does this climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, have the nerve to try to predict the future 40 years on, but he is…

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