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Humanity 'headed for a very difficult future', warns OU professor

Godfrey Boyle
Humanity is headed for a very difficult future unless we change our ways soon, according to The Open University's Emeritus Professor of Renewable Energy Godfrey Boyle (pictured).

In an interview for Indian website Zee News about climate change, he says that technology is part of the solution but we also need social and cultural shifts – in particular, a move away from consumerism.

Read Godfrey Boyle's interview here.

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