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Editors Note
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In the week we wrote this editorial, former US Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work with the words "We, the human race, are confronting a planetary emergency—a threat to the survival of our civilisation that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here". What, you may ask, has this to do with a Journal such as this, concerned with