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![[President] Obama didn’t change the weltanschauung. He does, however, deserve credit for doing a great deal within its constraints. Climate hawks should not waste their time hoping for a Great Man (or Woman) to save the day in the next election. No one person, no matter how brave or clever, can turn the tide. The impediments to climate action in the U.S. are primarily structural and systemic; systems thinking, not Romantic tales of individual heroism, is what’s needed.
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[President] Obama didn’t change the weltanschauung. He does, however, deserve credit for doing a great deal within its constraints. Climate hawks should not waste their time hoping for a Great Man (or Woman) to save the day in the next election. No one person, no matter how brave or clever, can turn the tide. The impediments to climate action in the U.S. are primarily structural and systemic; systems thinking, not Romantic tales of individual heroism, is what’s needed.
Many…have written about how global warming will damage some of the world’s most treasured landscapes and beloved species. This book aims to lay out exactly how bad it will be for human beings.
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Republicans cheered former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez’s Massachusetts primary victory, but Democratic Congressman Ed Markey enjoys tremendous advantages in the special election to replace former U.S. Sen. John Kerry…In Markey, the race pits a longtime liberal politician known for environmental advocacy against Gomez, a…social moderate with a distinguished biography and untested political skills. On paper, it looks like a competitive contest, but Republicans quietly concede that Markey is the strong favorite in a state where only around 11 percent of voters are registered Republicans.
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![…today [NYC] Mayor Bloomberg announced an expansion of the Sanitation’s composting pilot program to more than 100 of the city’s 8,000+ restaurants, including Chipotle, Pret-a-Manger, Momofuku, and Mario Batali-owned eateries. The overall goal is to divert 75% of solid waste from landfills by 2030, thereby reducing greenhouses gas emissions…
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…today [NYC] Mayor Bloomberg announced an expansion of the Sanitation’s composting pilot program to more than 100 of the city’s 8,000+ restaurants, including Chipotle, Pret-a-Manger, Momofuku, and Mario Batali-owned eateries. The overall goal is to divert 75% of solid waste from landfills by 2030, thereby reducing greenhouses gas emissions…
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…im tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things i enjoy somehow make me a lesser person…im tired of being congratulated for being thin because i can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway…im tired of people i love betraying me so they can get credit or money…I’m sad that it’s uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues…I’m tired of creeps on message boards discussing whether or not they’d ‘fuck’ me…I’m sad that my desire to be treated as an equal and as a human being is interpreted as hatred of men, rather than a request to be included and respected (I have four brothers and many male best friends and a dad and i promise i do not hate men at all, nor do i believe that all men are sexist or that all men behave in the ways described above)…
…more and more writers have begun to set their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth’s systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction—”cli-fi,” for short.
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…Becker crisscrossed the globe, from the beaches of Sri Lanka to the game reserves of sub-Saharan Africa, from the vineyards of France to America’s national parks, measuring the impact of the tourist trade. And while she finds plenty of inspiring examples of wise governance and corporate responsibility, in many other cases greed and shortsightedness have ruined once-pristine environments, exacerbated human misery and destroyed the spontaneity that once made travel an adventure.
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If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planet…It is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.
Jim Yong Kim, head of the World Bank
Offshore oil drilling will soon be allowed in…the Bahamas, which is made up of thousands of islands and cays off the Floridian coast. Initially, the drilling will be exploratory only…The Bahamas environment minister said the option of allowing large-scale commercial oil drilling would be put to the nation’s voters after results of the exploratory drills are known, perhaps in 2015.
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