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I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

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• It's not enough for one country or even a few countries to reduce emissions when other countries continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon pollution as they see fit.

  

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• I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

  

  Lennie James