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Too much climate pessimism leads to people ‘lying flat’: Singapore’s president

He was drawing from a buzz phrase made popular by the Chinese, which means doing the bare minimum to get by. Avoid complacency but don’t adopt “catastrophic thinking”, says Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the Ecosperity sustainability conference.

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He was drawing from a buzz phrase made popular by the Chinese, which means doing the bare minimum to get by. Avoid complacency but don’t adopt “catastrophic thinking”, says Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the Ecosperity sustainability conference.