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But it is clear that many blue-collar voters don’t feel at home in the Democratic Party — and that their alienation is a major impediment to the U.S. doing more to slow climate change.

nytimes.com/2022/07/18/briefing/extreme-heat-climate-fight-us-government.html

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People with A.D.H.D. may lack self-awareness, which can make it difficult to recognize how they are coming across to other people or how their behavior contributes to the problems they’re experiencing in their relationships

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/well/mind/adhd-dating-relationships.html

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“Everything we perceive is inconsistent with the physical reality of the world,” Dr. Purves said. “Everything we see, whether it’s line length, color, brightness, you name it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/science/optical-illusion-tunnel.html

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In some cases, Chinese diplomats worked to ensure that Taiwan could not participate in the groups. In other cases, Chinese officials pushed U.N. personnel to ensure that  Taiwan was labeled a “province of China” in documents. The U.S. has a policy of promoting Taiwan’s participation in international organizations and venues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/politics/china-taiwan-un.html

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In just a few weeks, then, every tenet of America’s energy policy has deteriorated. But now, no policy maker or major interest in Washington seems well positioned to solve this problem. Everyone is stuck: The oil companies can’t get new fossil-fuel supply on the market in less than a year without ceding power to the White House. The White House can’t work with the oil companies without fracturing its climate-concerned coalition—unless it could, at the same time, get major climate policy passed in Congress to reduce our long-term dependence on oil. But Congress won’t budge. Its failure to pass any comprehensive energy policy is the core of the problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/energy-independence-gas-prices/627117/

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She began airing her frustration on social media under the handle browngirl_green, and soon concluded that many communities of color, already affected by climate change and environmental devastation, lack “the time or privilege to get lost on climate doom,” she said. “They have to focus on solutions,” she added, “because their survival is literally on the line.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/climate/climate-change-ok-doomer.html

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“We cannot talk about a renewables revolution if getting a permit for a wind farm takes seven years,” Ms. Simson said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/business/economy/ukraine-russia-europe-energy.html

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India joined the diplomatic boycott over China’s decision to appoint as torchbearer a regimental commander involved in a deadly border brawl in 2020.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/02/04/olympics-beijing-opening-ceremonies/

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But the debate is not yet at whether we should pull that lever. Indeed, the world can credibly put in place a moratorium on the deployment of solar geoengineering. But research, responsibly managed, is vital and not impossible to imagine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-01/a-ban-on-solar-geoengineering-would-limit-our-climate-options?sref=Uc3QjJZ6

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After seven years of work, Upside says it’s ready to pump out as much as 50,000 pounds of food from the California plant. “We want to be able to ship product from here nationally and then internationally,” says Uma Valeti, the chief executive officer and co-founder. He says Upside can make just about any meat product, but it will focus first on things like chicken nuggets and chicken breasts and has already started production at the facility.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-10/fda-weighs-approval-of-lab-grown-meat-sales-in-2022?srnd=premium

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Other bee-embracing cities include Singapore and Ljubljana, Slovenia, which have developed bee paths — like a wine trail, but with attractions that feature “bee hotels” and diverse bee-attracting gardens for the public to view bees up close. In Santiago, Chile, former history teacher Felipe Bastías operates 80 urban beehives that provide the star ingredient in a blonde ale produced by a local brewery. Bastías says he steers some of his honey profits into his program to teach underprivileged local kindergarteners about beekeeping and, by extension, how the natural world can play a role in urban life.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-07/paris-leads-urban-honey-push-as-beekeeping-goes-corporate

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Such measures of climate vulnerability are a useful tool for the constructive view of reparations: what matters about the economy are the actual lives people are empowered to lead. And the measures clearly reveal that the colonizing parts of the world are now much less vulnerable to climate change than the regions they colonized. The measures thus reflect a simple lesson about how yesterday’s distribution affects tomorrow’s reality: heightened vulnerability to the incoming aspects of climate change correlates directly with greater deprivation in the status quo. In short, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It is not that every aspect of today’s global racial empire is rooted in the impacts of climate change—but every aspect of tomorrow’s global racial empire will be. Climate change will redistribute social advantages in a way that compounds and locks in the distributional injustices we have inherited from history.

https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-fight-for-reparations-cannot-ignore-climate-change/

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consciousness is an observation deck. 

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A 17 percent surge in coal-fired electricity helped drive an overall increase of 6.2 percent in greenhouse gas emissions compared with the previous year, according to an analysis published Monday by the Rhodium Group. While emissions remained below pre-pandemic levels, it marked the first annual increase in reliance on the nation’s dirtiest fossil fuel since 2014, the independent research firm said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/10/us-emissions-surged-2021-putting-nation-further-off-track-its-climate-targets/

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But are we willing to give, and take, that chance? Maybe more than fearing majority tyranny, we suspect that the country is already too divided and mistrustful to make basic choices together at all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/opinion/us-democracy-constitution.html

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It matters because of how the change happened at all—a massive program of selective breeding that was not possible, Suits said, until railroads existed to ferry promising horses over long distances.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/new-visual-history-american-energy/617329/

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instead of dispersing the proposed programmes between multiple existing agencies that have widely differing mandates, they should be united under a different kind of governance. We envision a DTSP that is run by a directorate resembling the current OSTP. The secretary of the new department would ideally have broad experience in both technology development and science policy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03543-x