Climate News: Pragmatist or purist? Senior Fellow with the World Resources Insitute, Dr Karl Hausker, explains the difference

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A Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute, Dr Karl Hausker (pictured), delivered a public lecture on October 10 at the University of Melbourne on "Recent developments in US climate policy."

And it was during the lecture, thanks to what Dr Hausker said, that I realised I was a purist as opposed to being a pragmatist when it came to my approach to the climate crisis.

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