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title: "Five-Year Terms, Fifty-Year Problems: climate, carbon, and how a democracy can think in decades | Corinne Le Quéré CBE, chaired by Janet Ellis MBE | The Rationalist Press Lecture 2026"
date: "2026-09-28T18:44:57+01:00"
modified: "2026-09-28T19:19:44+01:00"
url: "https://humanists.uk/events/rationalistpress2026/"
post_id: 198964
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# Five-Year Terms, Fifty-Year Problems: climate, carbon, and how a democracy can think in decades | Corinne Le Quéré CBE, chaired by Janet Ellis MBE | The Rationalist Press Lecture 2026