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He won’t actually be at COP29, and President Biden’s team will push for progress, but they know that anything they agree to will not bind the new administration.

In a world of limitless options and limited resources, it’s a familiar bind: whether to spend your hard-earned cash on the fun thing that promises instant gratification, or the sensible one that may pay off in the future.

That bind has only been exacerbated by the rise of e-commerce and digital services, Schwartz says, prompting him to begin work on a “substantial” revision of his book: “The problem as I described it 20 years ago is a tiny fraction of the problem that we face now.”

"During primary school, I would make games from paper and put them into a ring bind file, cut out paper characters and move them through the pages," he says.

For the attack on the Bonus Army and the Madison Square Garden rally share features that could bind them together as campaign turning points.