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Letter: Take the long view with a little help from nature

Published 26 April 2023

From John Stevens, Bad Münstereifel, Germany

A simple way to encourage far-sighted thinking would be to make it mandatory for every school-leaver to plant a tree. This would root in our minds a sense of a future further down the line than the end of our short-termist noses(25 March, p 46).

Issue no. 3436 published 29 April 2023

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