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Is it possible to undo 2016?

Bureaucracy may constrain the worst of Trump & Brexit, but real fixes have to come from bottom-up

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The meagre funding support that the US had provided to GEF and the Green Climate Fund stands to considerably dry up triggering a run to the bottom

John Feffer | FPIF
The two events that put 2016 in the history books — alongside other pivotal years such as 2001, 1989, and 1945 — were, of course, the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. What makes 2016 different, however, is its apparent revocability.

Germany and Japan, after all, didn’t try to restart World War II. Nobody attempted to rebuild the Berlin Wall. And the lives lost on 9/11 can’t be restored.

But last week, both the U.K. and the U.S. took significant steps to hit the rewind button on the momentous events