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Maybe We Did Want to Save the World (Part 2)

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In the second episode, we trace the meteoric rise of "The Limits to Growth" to a global sensation. We uncover how it was not intended as a book nor for a world audience – and reveal the bitter PR warfare waged against it by industry, scientific and other elites.

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