It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health.

If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average.

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    I suppose it might be dealt with by education.

    No amount of education is going to get them to relinquish power voluntarily. They will use every tactic at their disposal, from propaganda to violence, to cling to it, and we must be prepared to counter that force.

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      Depends, if you put the leaders and billionaires in a learning camp where they garden and make art for the rest of their lives, that alone would eliminate the CO2 of many countries.