Can Economy Bear What Oil Prices Have in Store?

Can Economy Bear What Oil Prices Have in Store?

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Stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy. That’s the message from two scientists, one from the University of Washington and one from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who say in a commentary in the journal Nature that the economic pain of a flattening oil supply will trump the environment as a reason to curb the use of fossil fuels.