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🗓️ 24 May 2020
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A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the chance to flatten the climate curve, when, why and how to lift coronavirus lockdowns (9:25) and the arrest of Africa’s most wanted man (17:25).
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0:50.8 | It's Monday, the 25th of May 2020. I'm Philip Coggan, the economist |
0:56.0 | Bartleby columnist. Welcome to Editors' Picks, where you can hear three stories from this week's |
1:02.0 | issue of the paper read aloud. Our cover story calls for a global effort to tackle climate change. |
1:10.7 | The coronavirus crisis creates a unique chance to steer the economy away from carbon, |
1:16.4 | at far lower cost than before. Rock bottom energy prices make it easier to cut subsidies for |
1:22.4 | fossil fuels and introduce the tax on carbon. These revenues can help prepare battered government |
1:28.0 | finances, while investment in climate-friendly infrastructure would boost growth and create new |
1:33.3 | jobs. Low interest rates make the bills smaller than ever. The world should seize the moment. |
1:40.7 | In their efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus, governments have imposed a patchwork |
1:45.2 | of lockdowns with different rules and durations. But lockdowns are blunt instruments that can cause |
1:51.3 | immense harm. We look at when, why and how to lift them. Finally, Felicia and Cabuga, |
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