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so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed-upon target of 2degC is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 10 percent a year. There is no precedent for those kinds of reductions within an economic model that requires relentless economic growth to survive.4 What all this means is that our economic system and our planetary system are now at war.