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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 22, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[follow and obey the money]<br>
<b>Major Investors To Fed: Act On Climate Change Or Face
'Disastrous' Economic Consequences</b><br>
TOPLINE A bipartisan group of 72 "public and private sector
leaders," including 40 investors with nearly $1 trillion in assets,
sent a letter to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell Tuesday
calling for the Fed to take action on climate change, noting that
the climate crisis "poses a systemic threat to financial markets and
the real economy," with potential for "disastrous impacts the likes
of which we haven't seen before."...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/07/21/major-investors-to-fed-act-on-climate-change-or-face-disastrous-economic-consequences/#1567725b5acd">https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/07/21/major-investors-to-fed-act-on-climate-change-or-face-disastrous-economic-consequences/#1567725b5acd</a>
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[New discovery]<br>
<b>First active leak of sea-bed methane discovered in Antarctica</b><br>
Researchers say potent climate-heating gas almost certainly escaping
into atmosphere<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/22/first-active-leak-of-sea-bed-methane-discovered-in-antarctica">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/22/first-active-leak-of-sea-bed-methane-discovered-in-antarctica</a><br>
[Source]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1134">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1134</a><br>
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[malfeasance found]<br>
<b>New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs</b><br>
The messages, made public in a lawsuit, suggest the E.P.A. rescinded
a requirement on methane at the behest of an executive just weeks
after President Trump took office.<br>
WASHINGTON -- Not long after President Trump's inauguration, the
head of a fossil fuels industry group requested a call with the
president's transition team. The subject: Barack Obama's requirement
that oil and gas companies begin collecting data on their releases
of methane.<br>
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That outreach, by Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy
Alliance, appeared to quickly yield the desired results.<br>
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"Looks like this will be easier than we thought," David Kreutzer, an
economist who was helping to organize the new president's
Environmental Protection Agency, wrote of canceling the methane
reporting requirement in an email to another member of the
transition team on Feb. 10, 2017.<br>
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Three weeks after that email, the E.P.A. officially withdrew the
reporting requirement -- and effectively blocked the compilation of
data that would allow for new regulations to control methane, a
powerful climate-warming gas.<br>
The emails are included in hundreds of pages of E.P.A. staff
correspondence and interviews recently made public in a lawsuit that
15 states have brought against the agency over the regulation of
methane. Led by Massachusetts and New York, the states say the
documents prove that fossil fuel industry players, working with
allies in the early days of Mr. Trump's E.P.A., engineered the
repeal of the methane reporting requirements with no internal
analysis, then created the rationale for the decision after the
fact...<br>
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Lisa Friedman reports on federal climate and environmental policy
from Washington. She has broken multiple stories about the Trump
administration's efforts to repeal climate change regulations and
limit the use of science in policymaking. @LFFriedman<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/climate/trump-methane-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/climate/trump-methane-climate-change.html</a><br>
[Read the emails]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/methane-ic-remails/a16ae11accccfb2c/full.pdf">https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/methane-ic-remails/a16ae11accccfb2c/full.pdf</a><br>
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[Associated Press in the Guardian]<br>
<b>
</b> <b>Two firefighters injured as northern California wildfires
prompt evacuations</b><br>
Authorities have warned of poor air quality in central and northern
parts of the state due to Gold, Hog and Mineral fires<br>
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Wildfires burning in rural north-eastern California have prompted
evacuations and injured two firefighters, fire officials in the
state said.<br>
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Two firefighters were injured Monday while battling the Gold fire,
which erupted on Monday in Lassen county and has burned several
hundred acres.<br>
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The two were taken to the hospital but their injuries and their
conditions weren't immediately known, Alisha Herring, a state fire
spokeswoman, said.<br>
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Another fire in Lassen county, the Hog fire west of Susanville,
prompted mandatory evacuations and threatened about 170 buildings
after starting last Friday. That fire had grown to encompass nine sq
miles (23 sq km).<br>
The Gold fire and the Hog fire are just two of several fires burning
in the region. Authorities have warned of poor air quality in
central and northern parts of the state.<br>
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The National Weather Service issued a dense smoke advisory for
Lassen and parts of Plumas and Sierra counties.<br>
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An air quality alert was also issued for most of the San Joaquin
Valley due to smoke from the Mineral fire in Fresno county west of
Coalinga.<br>
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That fire had grown to more than 44 sq miles (114 sq km) and was 62%
contained. Seven structures have been destroyed and 60 remained
threatened.<br>
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Several smaller fires burned elsewhere in California, including a
450-acre (182-hectare) blaze in Siskiyou county that triggered an
evacuation of the tiny community of Hawkinsville.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/21/california-wildfires-gold-hog-mineral-susanville">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/21/california-wildfires-gold-hog-mineral-susanville</a><br>
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[Video discussion]<br>
<b>The Future Earth: Eric Holthaus and Katharine Wilkinson</b><br>
Climate One<br>
Science has given us a realistic picture of what Earth will look
like with uninhibited levels of climate change: increased extreme
weather events, crippled economies, and a world where those with the
least are the hardest hit. What would a radically re-envisioned
future look like? What solutions do we need to replace tomorrow's
doom-and-gloom projections with thriving cities, renewed political
consciousness, equitable societies and carbon-free economies?<br>
Join us with climate journalist and The Future Earth author Eric
Holthaus and Project Drawdown Vice President Katharine Wilkinson for
a conversation on reimagining our role in creating climate
solutions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBdrofeHIYI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBdrofeHIYI</a><br>
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[This Ban Ki-moon opinion article was removed from publication -
"This article was published early in error. It will be reinstated at
the correct time. " This is an archived version]<br>
<b>By abandoning the Paris agreement, Trump makes America less safe</b><br>
Ban Ki-moon, The Guardian - July 20, 2020<br>
The world needs US leadership - walking away will do nothing to stop
the consequences of climate change<br>
The Paris agreement to tackle climate change is an extraordinary
opportunity. In a remarkable display of unity, almost every nation
on Earth has agreed to make critical changes that will help humanity
avoid disaster. By aiming to limit global warming to 1.5C, it
represents the world's best chance of adapting to a crisis that
threatens our planet's very existence. But President Donald Trump is
walking away.<br>
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This decision is politically shortsighted, scientifically wrong and
morally irresponsible. By leaving the Paris agreement, he is
undermining his country's future.<br>
Every single day, we see the effects of climate change across the
US. From catastrophic forest fires in California to rising sea
levels in Miami and devastating flooding in Texas, these changes are
a real and present danger. Our climate is visibly changing and the
consequences will be disastrous for everyone.<br>
Despite this, the president is closing his eyes to reality. He is
turning away from the only opportunity to save humanity from the
effects of rising temperatures. Far from making America great again,
his decision leaves it isolated - as everyone else comes together to
face this great challenge.<br>
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President Trump's stance is all the more bewildering because climate
change does not respect borders. This crisis will not bypass America
because he chooses to ignore it. Fires will burn just as wildly and
rising seas continue to threaten coastal cities. No country is an
island and America cannot pull up the drawbridge to escape a crisis
enveloping the whole world.<br>
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Walking away will also do nothing to stop the consequences of
climate change arriving on America's doorstep. According to the
World Bank, the effects of rising temperatures could force 1.4
million people to abandon their homes in Mexico and Central America,
where one-third of all jobs remain linked to agriculture. Many of
these climate refugees will head to the US.<br>
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Tackling climate change is an international problem that needs an
international solution. The Paris agreement is the result of decades
of careful work and a solution that will benefit everyone -
including America - long-term. We need a low-carbon strategy for
everything from food and water systems to transport plans and we
must design climate resilience into our infrastructure. By investing
in climate-adaptation strategies now, we can protect against the
worst impacts of the risks and dangers that lie ahead.<br>
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A Global Commission on Adaptation report found that investing $1.8tn
globally in adaptation by 2030 could yield $7.1tn in net benefits.
Planning now and prospering, rather than delaying and paying for the
consequences later, will sort the winners from the losers in this
crisis response.<br>
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There is a brutal irony in that the world at large is finally waking
up to the climate crisis as President Trump ignores the science. The
EU is creating a Green Deal for a more sustainable economy and China
is greening its infrastructure spending as leaders across the globe
realise that we are running out of options. Without the Paris
agreement, America will start sliding backwards just as everyone
else accelerates.<br>
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History does not look kindly on leaders who do not lead when
disaster threatens. There is a moral bankruptcy in looking away in a
time of crisis, which resonates down the decades. This is all the
more poignant as, across America, we can see many local efforts to
try to plug the gap in the country's climate strategy. Many
Americans understand what their leader does not: we are running out
of time to try to stem disaster, and their very lives may be under
threat.<br>
In Boston, city leaders have launched Climate Ready Boston to help
create a more resilient future by redesigning buildings and
waterfront parks, and elevating pathways. In Miami, the Miami
Forever Bond includes nearly $200m for climate-change adaptation,
countering sea-level rise through measures such as planting
mangroves along the waterfront and raising sea walls.<br>
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Politicians from across the US political divide can also see what is
coming - and what is necessary to avert disaster - from Republicans
such as Miami's mayor, Francis Suarez, to the Democrats, who have
presented a Green New Deal. But this international crisis cannot be
solved by local action, important though that is. We need the US to
show leadership and place the whole might of US innovation and
expertise behind this most important of endeavors.<br>
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President Trump has made a grave mistake in withdrawing from the
Paris agreement at this critical juncture.<br>
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His actions lessen America, a country that has always taken pride in
doing the right thing, at the right time, and seized opportunities
for technological and economic transformation. But it is not yet too
late to find a way back and this is one error that can be undone. We
can only hope that America recognises this before it is too late.<br>
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Ban Ki-moon was the eighth secretary general of the United Nations
and is chair of the Global Center on Adaptation<br>
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[NYTimes -text and audio]<br>
<b>The Teenagers at the End of the World</b><br>
Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement
while growing up -- planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms
and during school.<br>
By Brooke Jarvis - July 21, 2020<br>
In February, Jamie Margolin gave a talk at the Seattle middle school
from which she graduated just a few years before. As a founder of
Zero Hour, a youth-led group advocating for climate action, she does
a lot of public speaking -- in a few days, she would help warm up a
crowd of 17,000 for Bernie Sanders -- but her talks with younger
children are special. She often feels, she says, as if she's
speaking to her former self. She always starts with an apology: "I
know this is unfair. I wish the future could be better than this."
And then she ends by telling kids that they, too, have the power to
take action. Before becoming an activist, she tells them, "I was
sitting in your seats, not knowing what to do."<br>
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Her message, about the scary realities of climate change and the
need to do something about them, is a big one for children to take
in. One fifth grader, teary-eyed, asked her, "Do you think we're
going to make it?" But Margolin thinks that young people, armed with
information and outrage, have a unique role to play in combating the
environmental crises that will define their lives. One middle-school
student at the event raised a hand to ask why polluting the earth,
because it's so dangerous and so unfair, isn't illegal, which struck
her as a pretty reasonable question. Children, she told me, "think
about it in a logical way that's more scientific than adults with
Ph.D.s. Adults, they go into a whole explanation, but kids will just
be like, This is wrong."...<br>
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Last month, Margolin published a guidebook, "Youth to Power: Your
Voice and How to Use It." In the foreword, the Swedish activist
Greta Thunberg writes that it took getting involved with Margolin
and the Zero Hour marches in 2018 to realize that she wasn't alone
in being deeply worried about what was happening to the planet on
which she still had her entire life to live. As she met more young
people through her activism, Thunberg writes, she began to see that,
the world over, many in her generation shared her anger and despair.
They just didn't know what to do with those feelings...<br>
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Last fall's explosion of youth climate marches, school walkouts and
media coverage of youth activism followed a similar, if less
spectacular, course. Climate change, which went unmentioned during
the 2012 presidential debates and received less than six minutes of
airtime when Trump and Hillary Clinton debated, became a major issue
during the 2020 primary season. Candidates' climate proposals became
far more ambitious than they were just a few years before -- though
still short of what science tells us is needed. "So what has changed
between then and now?" the historian Thai Jones asked ABC News. "The
answer is activism."...<br>
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Yet many youth climate activists feel that their work is still
misunderstood: A diverse movement with dispersed leadership and a
complex critique of the racial and economic injustice of climate
change gets boiled down to just a few faces and slogans. Margolin
has watched Thunberg purposefully avoid giving speeches, trying to
pass the microphone to other young activists from parts of the world
hard hit by the climate crisis, only to see the media quote
Thunberg's quick comments instead of her peers' carefully written
statements. When The Associated Press cropped the Ugandan activist
Vanessa Nakate out of a photo taken at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, leaving only white activists in the frame, it was both
infuriating and unsurprising. So is coverage that ignores the effort
that goes into organizing and treats youth protests as a mere
novelty. All this, too, Margolin finds exhausting. "The story
shouldn't be, Oh, isn't it cute that these kids are standing up for
something," she said. "It should be, What are they standing up
for?"..<br>
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In 2017, a report from the American Psychological Association
included a new word, "ecoanxiety," which the A.P.A. defined as "a
chronic fear of environmental doom." It was only the latest in an
emerging lexicon of life in the age of planetary disruption. The
most famous of these neologisms is probably "solastalgia," a word
invented by the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht to describe
the homesickness you feel for a place that you have not left but
that has transformed beyond recognition around you. There's also
"shadowtime," which "manifests as a feeling of living in two
distinctly different temporal scales simultaneously, or acute
consciousness of the possibility that the near future will be
drastically different than the present." That one was created by the
Bureau of Linguistical Reality, a California-based conceptual-art
project that works with the public to coin words for our
disorienting new experiences. They also came up with "blissonance"
(what you might feel while enjoying a pleasantly warm day in winter
but wondering what unpleasant things it bodes about the future) and
"jestope" (an attitude of hope mixed with cleareyed honesty about
difficult realities)...<br>
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A 2018 paper in the journal Nature Climate Change warned that the
grief associated with "anticipated ecological losses" may be
especially acute for children and youth. "It is likely to be
particularly difficult to articulate a sense of grief felt over the
loss of the future," the authors wrote. But Gottlieb told me that he
hears his peers articulate precisely that grief all the time. "That
fear's always in the back of our minds," he said. "I won't have a
future. It's this constant anxiety, this thing at the back of your
head."<br>
In recent years, researchers have called for more study of how big
planetary changes like climate change affect mental health. A recent
survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post found
that when it comes to climate change, the emotions that most
teenagers report feeling are anger, motivation and, above all, fear
-- but that they are actually less likely than adults to feel
helpless. It also found that nearly a quarter of them had taken some
kind of direct action related to the climate crisis: walking out
from school, joining a protest, writing to the officials they were
not yet old enough to elect...<br>
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For Margolin, years immersed in the politics of climate change meant
that there was a lot about the pandemic that felt familiar.
Scientists' warnings went unheeded; government was slow to take the
threat seriously; people protested that measures meant to protect
them were infringing on their personal rights. A global danger
initially dubbed a great equalizer turned out to be far more
dangerous for people who already had less wealth and power. Then the
stock market tanked, and the president and other public figures
started calling for the economy to reopen long before
epidemiologists believed it was safe: another sacrifice of life for
money. Familiar, too, were the dread and uncertainty, the
frustration of seeing disaster looming and not being able to stop
it. It was, in other words, as if more of the world were learning
what it felt like to be her...<br>
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In April, I texted Margolin to see how things were going and got a
despondent answer...<br>
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By the time we met in person again, Margolins anger was palpable.
The pandemic was exposing "the same pattern of [expletive]" as the
climate crisis, she said: "Politicians would rather turn a blind eye
and pretend it doesn't exist," at least until things got so bad they
couldn't deny them any longer. She had recently gotten into film
school, but so many things she once looked forward to had simply
vanished that she couldn't bear to talk about it. What if her big
chance at adulthood turned out to be more Zoom classes from her
childhood bedroom? "I'm scared I'll let myself get excited about
something," she said.<br>
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We were at a park in her neighborhood, on a peninsula that juts
westward from Seattle, sitting far apart. It had taken me a long
time to get there: The high bridge that connects the area to the
rest of the city recently developed visible cracks in its concrete,
and suddenly thousands of cars had to squeeze through a congested
detour. The best estimate was that her section of the city would be
cut off in this way for years. Margolin joked that given the way
2020 was going, an alien invasion might be next, but the truth was
that she no longer found big cracks in the basic infrastructure of
life to be surprising.<br>
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Lately, though, she had been thinking about the value of
uncertainty: that big, sudden shifts could mean progress as well as
disaster. Margolin had recently been to a Black Lives Matter march
in her neighborhood, had seen public opinion race toward recognition
of emergency at warp speed. Even when she felt her most tired and
cynical, she could still imagine the world transforming -- becoming
new, becoming better.<br>
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The goal wasn't to go back to normal, after all: "The status quo was
people being murdered by the police. The status quo was the climate
crisis." It was still frightening to think about the future, but
part of that fear had to do with understanding the perils of hope.<br>
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"I'm trying not to feel," she said. Instead, her plan was to focus
on just doing the work that she could do, because she no longer knew
what to predict.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/21/magazine/teenage-activist-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/21/magazine/teenage-activist-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[Opinion NYTimes]<br>
<b>Could Biden Be the Climate-Change President?</b><br>
His new plan bills itself as a "revolution," going well beyond
anything the Obama administration attempted. Is it enough?<br>
By Spencer Bokat-Lindell - July 21, 2020<br>
Mere months ago, back before the campaign trail had closed down on
account of plague, Joe Biden told fellow Democrats who questioned
his commitment to stopping climate change to "vote for someone
else." Now, he's taking their advice.<br>
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After clinching the party nomination, Mr. Biden and his former rival
Senator Bernie Sanders convened a task force, headed by former
Secretary of State John Kerry and Representative Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, to shape his climate agenda. Last week, Mr. Biden
unveiled the fruits of that collaboration: A $2 trillion plan that
promises to chart "an irreversible course to meet the ambitious
climate progress that science demands" while also remedying economic
and racial inequality.<br>
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"This is not a status quo plan," Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington told
The Times. "It is comprehensive," he added, going so far as to call
the proposal "visionary." But considering the United States has
spent well over $2 trillion just on the coronavirus, a crisis that
some have likened to a dress rehearsal for climate change, does Mr.
Biden's plan really go far enough? Here's what people are saying...<br>
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What's inside the plan<br>
During the primaries, Mr. Biden called for achieving net-zero
emissions before 2050, in keeping with the Paris climate agreement,
by spending $1.7 trillion over 10 years -- a significantly more
aggressive plan than Hillary Clinton's in 2016, but still
"hopelessly inadequate," according to New York magazine's David
Wallace-Wells.<br>
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Mr. Biden's updated proposal both increases the investment by $300
billion and shrinks the timetable to four years. Here's where that
money would go:<br>
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The power sector: By 2035, the country would run on 100 percent
emissions-free electricity.<br>
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Transit: The plan promises "the cleanest, safest and fastest rail
system in the world," as well as high-quality, zero-emissions public
transportation in every American city with 100,000 or more residents
by 2030.<br>
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Buildings: At least one million well-paying union jobs would be
created to upgrade four million buildings and weatherize two million
homes over four years.<br>
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The auto industry: Another million jobs would be created to
electrify the country's car, bus and truck fleets, positioning
American auto workers and manufacturers "to win the 21st century."<br>
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Innovation: $400 billion would be allocated to the research and
development of renewable energy technologies.<br>
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Sustainable agriculture and conservation: Mr. Biden would create a
civilian climate corps, modeled after Franklin Roosevelt's New
Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, to protect and restore
vulnerable ecosystems.<br>
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Environmental justice: The plan would also link environmental reform
to redressing racial and economic inequality by directing 40 percent
of the $2 trillion investment to communities hardest hit by
pollution, constructing 1.5 million sustainable affordable housing
units and establishing an environmental and climate justice division
within the Justice Department...<br>
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Wisely, Mr. Biden's plan also does not rule out the use of nuclear
power, The Washington Post's editorial board writes. While Mr.
Markey's and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's proposal left the door open to
nuclear power, some environmentalists harbor strong oppositions to
the technology, which the board calls "irrational." At the same
time, Mr. Biden "rightly does not guarantee it a permanent place" in
the power mix if other sources can replace it.<br>
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And in economic terms, Mr. Biden's plan is exactly what the country
needs right now, the economist Noah Smith argues in Bloomberg.
Millions of Americans will emerge from the pandemic still
unemployed, he says, so putting them to work building clean energy
infrastructure makes perfect sense: "Against all odds, this elderly
centrist may end up being the country's best chance at a genuine
successor to F.D.R. Let's hope so, because if ever there was a time
when the U.S. needed a transformative economic program, it's now."<br>
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'We might have hoped for more'<br>
Mr. Biden's climate plan still has one glaring omission, Brian Kahn
argues in Earther: While it has plenty to say about investing in
clean energy, it's mum on the root need to divest from fossil fuels.
As Mr. Kahn notes, the Obama administration presided over an
oil-and-gas boom, and in 2019 the United States became a net fossil
fuel exporter, sending 8.5 million barrels of petroleum around the
world every day. So by 2050, barring an unlikely breakthrough in
technology that can scrub greenhouse gases from the air, the United
States can't just stop using fossil fuels; it has to stop digging
them up, too.<br>
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Another issue with Mr. Biden's plan is that it does nothing to
reduce the use of cars, Carlton Reid writes in Forbes. To the
contrary, Mr. Reid says, his plan further entrenches American car
dependency by wrapping it "in Trump-style 'America first'
nationalism." As the Times columnist Farhad Manjoo has explained,
electric cars are no panacea: "They are more efficient than
gas-powered cars, but they still consume a lot of resources to
produce, and if they result in people driving more, they may not
greatly reduce overall emissions."<br>
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And more broadly, Mr. Biden's nationalist solutions don't quite jibe
with the global nature of the problem, Kate Aronoff argues at The
New Republic. Much of the world's state-of-the-art renewable energy
technology is being developed and manufactured in countries where
labor expenses are lower, she notes, so if the goal is to deploy as
much clean energy as quickly as possible, Mr. Biden should accept
that a carbon-free American economy can't be made entirely in
America.<br>
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"There's still plenty of room for genuine U.S. leadership, and even
for the U.S. to make more things domestically," she writes. "Any
climate plan that pits the U.S. against the world in the midst of a
truly global crisis, though, can only kick off a race toward a
warmer, uglier future."...<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/opinion/biden-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/opinion/biden-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[general curiosity]<br>
<b>How Earth's Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are
Different Now)</b><br>
Earth's climate has fluctuated through deep time, pushed by these 10
different causes. Here's how each compares with modern climate
change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-earths-climate-changes-naturally-and-why-things-are-different-now-20200721/">https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-earths-climate-changes-naturally-and-why-things-are-different-now-20200721/</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
July 22, 2013 </b></font><br>
<p>Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), a carbon-tax advocate running for the seat
left vacant by the passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), shocks
the Washington establishment by bluntly stating that "millions
will die" if something is not done to address carbon pollution.
(Rep. Holt would go on to lose the Democratic Senate primary to
Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker, who won the seat in the general
election.)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_O4nEMAtP4&sns=em">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_O4nEMAtP4&sns=em</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/jul/28/rush-holt/rush-holt-warns-millions-will-die-climate-change-g/">http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/jul/28/rush-holt/rush-holt-warns-millions-will-die-climate-change-g/</a><br>
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