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‘I reckon my life will be easy, but my kids will be buggered’: ambivalence in young people's positive perceptions of individual futures and their visions of environmental collapse

Steven Threadgold School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 17-32 | Received 13 Apr 2011, Accepted 25 Aug 2011, Published online: 13 Oct 2011

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