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How to stop your pension fund from fuelling climate change and deforestation

July 17, 2020August 18, 2020 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

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I am the author of 'Ladders To Heaven: How fig trees shaped our history, fed our imaginations and can enrich our future' (Unbound, 2016). My book was published in the US and Canada as 'Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees' (Chelsea Green, 2016).
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