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Entrepreneur Robin Chase speaks Monday at a Trumbull College Master’s Tea, where she said effective action to preempt global warming will have to be taken within two to three years.
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Entrepreneur Robin Chase speaks Monday at a Trumbull College Master’s Tea, where she said effective action to preempt global warming will have to be taken within two to three years.

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Chase said people must act soon to avert disaster. “There is a 50-percent chance of averting catastrophic climate change,” Chase said, adding that preemptive actions would have to be taken “in a two- or three-year time frame.” She criticized the environmentalist strategies proposed by politicians at meetings of the United Nations because they often ignore the urgency of the situation.

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