Breaking the trade-off between prosperity and the environment is an opportunity rather than something that will happen on its own.

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  Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.

  These are the two halves of Ritchie’s own argument and they pull against each other on purpose: the deadlock has started to break, and there is no law that says it will keep breaking. She holds both, and the second is the sentence she says she always adds.

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