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sure, 1.5's bad
but we only just got there
wake me in ten years
#haiku #senryu #poem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #ShortPoem #climate #weather #temperature #heat #ExtremeHeat #ClimatePolitics
A few notes to follow as a comment.
A bit optimistic, perhaps.
For a dozen and a half years, 2035 seemed the worrisome date, but of late I can't extrapolate any societal effect curves in ways that help me see how we get even that far. People shouldn't get too comfortable with this far out dates that seem to anchor the conversation safely in the future. Even my mention of 2035 is not intended to suggest that's a good anchor date.
Especially with the accelerant we've this week poured on the fire in the US, destroying progress, reversing course, undercutting safety nets.
People will differ on this, but I don't think individual protesting in the US will help because I think this administration is looking for an excuse to declare martial law and to have something they can point to and characterize as dangerous as part of bootstrapping dictatorship. I'm told this is how it's been done elsewhere.
But I do think there are intact legal processes that need to be used. I do think that the people now in office are nervous about this and that pleas from constituents can still affect things. I think slowing the onset of dictatorship long enough to get to the midterm elections (2 years out) in the US and possibly create a legal roadblock is our best bet. It's a long ways off, and I'm not for a moment suggesting physics is willing to hold itself up waiting for process to run. But I think the climate science is not the issue at this point. It's all about politics.
I will say also that not that many days or weeks or months ago, depending on where you count from, but not long, all this stuff in the US was just so much academic talk. And today it is reality for many of us. There's an analogy to be made with Climate. It all seems academic right now, but soon enough the fires of LA won't seem like isolated events. For many around the world who don't control the media focus, it already is reality.
In the Asimov & Silverberg novel Nightfall (not the short story), after a big global cataclysm (which I think is not a spoiler since the story is about the how, not the what), a psychologist named Sheerin who'd predicted social chaos says later, looking back:
«"It's one thing to predict it. It's something else to be right in the middle of it. It's a very humbling thing, Theremon, for an academic like me to find his abstract theories turning into concrete reality. I was so glib, so blithely unconcerned. 'Tomorrow there won't be a city standing unharmed in all [the world]' I said, and it was all just so many words to me, really, just a philosophical exercise, completely abstract. 'The end of the world you used to live in.' Yes. Yes." Sheerin shivered. "And it all happened, just like I said. But I suppose I didn't really believe my own dire predictions, until everything came crashing down around me.»
We all talk about what's coming but we aren't going to really be able to hear ourselves until it happens. And then we're going to be horrified beyond imagination and wonder why we didn't do more.
To lighten the mood slightly, and only slightly, I'll end by noting I'm also reminded of a parody movie poster from decades ago that showed then British-PM Thatcher in then-President-and-former-movie-star Reagan's arms and bore the caption "She promised to follow him to the end of the earth. He promised to organise it!" The concern at the time was nuclear war, which seems almost a quaintly simple concern at this point. This is the sequel that never should have been made.
https://archives.victoria.ac.nz/repositories/2/archival_objects/3029
(There's a color version at https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fgg84vtmnw6f31.jpg as well. I wish I knew who owned the IP to find out the license restrictions or I'd have included the image more directly.)
#climate #ClimateDenial #dictatorship #fascism #USPolitics #politics #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolitics #Nightfall #Reagan #Thatcher
628 #ClimatePolitics #UK #SimonClark #KiersStarmer
Ambushed by the PM of the UK. Two questions asked AND answered.
Hopefull and promisses.
95 % clean energy by 2030 and it's totally feasable.
"How I accidentally met the Prime Minister" [16:11 min]
by Simon Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV27DiEuGls
Quote by SC:
" Dec 17, 2024
So... this is a thing that happened. I was expecting a briefing from a junior member of the government about climate change. I ended up meeting the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown
561 #ClimatePolitics #UK #Miliband
About the weak kneed failure of global politics with a UK focus.
Politicians capitulating to popular opinion and disinformation.
Failure to lead and tell [show] people what to do.
"The British climate plan that (nearly) worked" [5:50 min]
by Dr Gilbz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEdsSExUCpI
Quote by DG:
"Nov 26, 2024 #ClimateAction
Once upon a time, two campaigners hatched a plan to get the UK to commit to cutting emissions and taking action on climate change. And it worked, pushing the creation of the world's first law enshrining climate targets in law. On the 26th November, 2008, the Climate Change Act was born.
However, since then progress has stalled. And not just in the UK. The world is at a crossroads: we must make a choice between a green future where climate action is taken seriously and a fossil fuelled future, where deadly extreme events and environmental destruction are the norm."
time stamps
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Mine's a Guinness
01:37 - A world first
02:17 - Did it work?
03:03 - F+ for effort
04:14 - A crossroads
04:52 - Take action
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown
541 #ClimatePolitics #ClimateEconomy
"The death of clean, green energy in the USA? Not a chance! Here's why..." [11:12 min]
by Just Have A Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY7ZFb26PwA
Quote by JHAT:
"Nov 17, 2024
"Drill baby drill", said Donald Trump many times on the campaign trail, along with all sorts of other threats to upend Biden's climate policies and hand power firmly back to the fossil fuel industry. Only trouble is, it won't be quite as easy in practice as it is in rhetoric."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown
507 #ClimatePolitics #USelections
"73% of Young US Voters Eager to Support Candidates With Bold Climate Agenda"
by Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams [Oct 18, 2024]
https://www.commondreams.org/news/youth-concerned-climate-us
"Over three-quarters in a new survey endorsed the idea that the "future is frightening" and 62.9% agreed that "humanity is doomed."
"More than half of young people in the U.S. are "very or extremely worried" about the climate crisis and an even larger percentage are motivated to do something about it, including at the ballot box. The data came from a poll published on Thursday in The Lancet Planetary Health"
"Climate change is causing widespread distress among U.S. youth and affecting their beliefs and plans for the future," the study authors concluded. "These effects may intensify, across the political spectrum, as exposure to climate-related severe weather events increases."
"The vast majority of respondents, 85%, were at least moderately worried about climate change, while 57.9% were very worried. Nearly two-thirds reported feeling anxious, powerless, afraid, sad, and angry about the climate crisis, while 51.2% felt despair. A smaller but significant number said that climate change was impacting their mental health and that worries about climate change were having a negative impact on their daily lives, at 42.8% and 38.3% respectively."
"Many respondents anticipated the crisis to alter the trajectory of their lives, with 69.4% expecting it to impact where they would live, 66% expecting it to menace their health, 63.5% saying it would impact their future plans overall, and 65.5% saying it would outright make their lives worse."
"The climate crisis also shaped the respondents' thoughts and opinions, with 89.4% blaming corporations and industry for the emergency, 86% blaming the U.S. government, and 85.5% blaming other wealthy nations."
"One of the most striking findings of the survey was that this was across the political spectrum," lead author Eric Lewandowski, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, toldThe Guardian. "There was no state sample where the endorsement of climate anxiety came in less than 75%."
"For example, while 92.6% and 86.5% of Democrats and Independents respectively said they were at least moderately worried about climate change, 73.5% of Republicans also said they were. While 83% of Democrats and 76.1% of Independents wanted the U.S. government to carry out a "plan to prevent the worst impacts of climate change," 69.1% of Republicans also did. And 62.3% of Republicans surveyed said they would vote based on a candidate's climate ambition, compared with 85.5% of Democrats and 74.5% of Independents."
"Coming weeks after the devastation of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the survey indicates that young people's mental health and well-being will consider to suffer as the climate crisis intensifies. This can be offset somewhat by giving these young people a chance to discuss and act on climate in their communities, schools, workplaces, and government. However, as with all climate impacts, the distress of young Americans has one overarching solution: rapidly phasing out fossil fuels to reduce emissions."
"These findings reinforce a theme identified in other research that climate change-related distress will continue to increase while climate change remains insufficiently addressed," the study authors concluded. "Accordingly, the response to address this distress must be for industries, governments, and policymakers to act at the necessary scale."
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#VoteBlue #UpAndDownTheBallot #ImWithHer
506 #ClimatePolitics #BigOil #Hypocracy
"Trump has vowed to gut climate rules. Oil lobbyists have a plan ready."
by Evan Halper and Josh Dawsey for the Washington Post [Oct 18, 2024]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/17/oil-industry-trump-climate-lobbying/
Quotes:
"As companies fall short on methane emission reductions, a top trade group has crafted a road map for dismantling key Biden administration rules."
"An influential oil and gas industry group../ [American Exploration and Production Council, or AXPC JdeB] \..has drafted detailed plans for dismantling landmark Biden administration climate rules after the presidential election"
"They reveal a comprehensive industry effort to reverse climate initiatives advanced during the past nearly four years of Democratic leadership. At the same time, the documents contain confidential data showing that industry’s voluntary initiatives to cut emissions from burning natural gas have fallen short."
"The policy plans, contained in documents distributed to a wide group of company executives at AXPC board meetings in April and August, also call for a repeal of more than a half-dozen executive orders that lie at the center of the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change. Taken together, the group’s goals amount to a monumental rollback of some of the most aggressive federal tools for cutting emissions."
“The data shows that the U.S. leads the world in emissions reduction because of the responsible production of oil and natural gas and we’re happy to engage any organization that wants to have a serious conversation on facts, science, and real solutions,” Bednar said in a statement. [BS with over 3 million abandonned pits leaking tons of methane JdeB]"
"At the gathering, Trump told industry executives that their best shot at a rewrite of climate policies that inhibit fossil fuel production would be to raise $1 billion to help propel him back into office."
"Trump “promised to grant their wishes,” said David Doniger, senior adviser to the NRDC Action Fund, the political arm of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the large environmental advocacy group. “And this is their wish list,” he said of the AXPC policy road map, which he reviewed at the request of The Post."
"ExxonMobil officials sought to distance themselves from the AXPC documents, saying the company does not agree with all of the plans being pursued by the group.
“We are aligned with them on many issues, but there are some issues where we are not,” said Bart Cahir, a senior vice president at ExxonMobil. He said ExxonMobil supports the methane fee."
"The confidential AXPC survey on methane emissions showed that while half the members that responded reduced methane flaring from 2021 to 2023, the rest went in the other direction. Flaring is the burning of excess natural gas, which contains methane, during fracking and oil production. Some companies more than doubled the amount of gas they flared"
"Outlined in the documents is more than a half-million dollars in political spending by AXPC to support Republicans in U.S. Senate races in Montana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, which could help push the chamber to GOP control. A small share of AXPC’s political spending goes to Democrats, mostly House members in oil- and gas-producing swing districts."
"Under the group’s plans, Biden climate measures would be replaced by new executive orders that promote fossil fuel production and lift a federal pause on the construction of massive infrastructure to export liquefied natural gas. Federal rules that require climate considerations to be taken into account for major infrastructure projects would be rewritten. That includes eliminating the Public Lands Rule, which reshuffled priorities involving federal land away from drilling and toward landscape and habitat protection."
"ExxonMobil said at the time that “the long-term nature of the climate change challenge requires that we all work together, and we look forward to working with the new Administration to put the U.S. on a path of achieving the goals of Paris.
ConocoPhillips says on its website that it accepts the scientific findings underpinning the Paris agreement, which it calls “a welcomed global policy response” to climate change.
A Hess climate disclosure starts with the company’s support of the Paris agreement’s goals."
"Independent monitoring groups say the companies are not living up to their pledges. The think tank Carbon Tracker published a REPORT CARD in March that found all the major oil and gas companies were far off track in meeting the Paris targets. ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips received among the worst grades. Hess was not included in the report."
link to download the report card:
-> carbontracker.org/reports/paris-maligned-2/ <-
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#VoteBlue #UpAndDownTheBallot #ImWithHer
505 #ClimatePolitics #BigOil #ElectionCorruption
"Big Oil Dishes Out Record $54.2 Million to Boost GOP Candidates: Analysis"
by Jake Johnson for Common Dreams [Oct 17, 2024]
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-oil-donations-republicans
Quotes:
"A Sludge review of new federal filings shows that the fossil fuel industry has donated a record sum to groups dedicated to electing Republicans to the U.S. House and Senate."
"The latest wave of donations brings the fossil fuel industry's total to more than $54.2 million given to the CLF and SLF during the 2023-24 election cycle through September, according to Sludge's analysis," the outlet reported. "The two super PACs have launched tens of millions of dollars of ads in the month before Election Day, with control of both chambers of Congress up for grabs."
"The new analysis of Big Oil's spending in the final stretch of the 2024 campaign came months after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged major fossil fuel industry players to raise $1 billion for his White House bid. In exchange, Trump—who has campaigned on the slogan "drill, baby, drill"—said he would work to roll back climate rules put in place by the Biden-Harris administration."
"In 2010, the courts opened the floodgates for individuals and corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on our elections," Lynn said, alluding to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. "It's no coincidence that American politics has grown more and more polarized and divisive since then. Our system is broken, and we won’t be able to fix it until we eliminate the influence of money in politics and root out the corruption that comes with it."
488 #ClimatePolitics #USpolitics #Elections
A somewhat longer, but very informative, panel discussion on the US election and the impact on the health of the planet and the #ClimateEmergency in general.
"How the US election could change our climate - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service" [17:49 min]
by BBC World Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8d8bp7KpJc
Quote by BBCWS:
"Oct 4, 2024 The Global Story
In the second of our pre-election series we look at America and... climate change. How could Kamala Harris or Donald Trump shape the global response to the climate crisis?
As one of the world’s largest producers of fossil fuels and carbon emissions, the US plays a pivotal role in addressing climate change. The environmental policies of the next president could reshape American industry and the economy, while influencing the global fight against climate change.
Sumi Somaskanda speaks to the BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt and Carl Nasman, who covers US climate issues for the BBC."
time stamps
00:00 Introduction
01:13 Climate change is affecting more Americans
03:12 How Trump and Harris speak about climate change
04:44 Kamala Harris' climate policy tightrope
05:30 Donald Trump's likely climate policies
07:37 Green jobs in the United States
09:49 The global impact of American policy
10:22 Comparing Biden administration to Trump's first term
12:24 Climate summit to be held just six days after election
13:19 What voters think about climate policy
14:23 Could it be too late?
#VoteBlue #UpAndDownTheBallot #ImWithHer
#TakeCareForEarth #StopBurnigThings #StopEcoside
486 #ClimatePolitics #Harris #IndigenousPeople
"Indigenous voters worry a Harris presidency means endangering sacred lands"
by Taylar Dawn Stagner for Grist [Oct 07, 2024]
https://grist.org/indigenous/indigenous-voters-harris-presidency-endangering-sacred-lands/
Quotes:
"The minerals beneath tribal lands are crucial to the clean-energy transition."
"Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris: “She is the right person at the right time to be our country’s 47th president!” The voice belonged to Governor of the Gila River Indian Community Stephen Roe Lewis, a tribal leader who helped resolve long overdue water rights in the state for the tribe last year. “Skoden!”
"...running mate Tim Walz, Vice President Harris took the stage, saying she would “always honor tribal sovereignty and respect tribal self-determination,”.../\...she maintains that she will work to secure America’s industrial future by investing in clean energy — but clean-energy development often negatively impacts sites on federal lands that are sacred to Indigenous peoples."
"The Biden-Harris administration has been one of the most supportive of Native peoples, investing millions of dollars of federal funding for climate resilience and green energy initiatives."
"Almost 80 miles east of the Arizona rally, a sacred site is in danger. Oak Flat, a swath of national forest land in the high desert, has been an important spiritual site for tribes like the San Carlos Apache for centuries, and is used for ceremonies and gathering medicines like sage, bear root, and greasewood. Yet the area is under threat — Rio Tinto, an international mining company, has been fighting to put a copper mine there for more than a decade."
"To reach its goal of 80 percent renewable energy generation by 2030, and carbon-free electricity five years after that, the U.S. needs big investments and robust policy support."
"most of the minerals needed for the energy transition are located within 35 miles of away from tribal communities, on lands originally stolen from them."
#VoteBlue #UpAndDownTheBallot #ImWithHer
#TakeCareForEarth #StopBurnigThings #StopEcoside
485 #ClimatePolitics #Trump #IndigenousPeople
"What a second Trump presidency could mean for Indigenous peoples"
by Anita Hofschneider for Grist [Oct 03, 2024] [Audio available]
https://grist.org/indigenous/second-trump-presidency-indigenous-peoples/
Quotes:
"Under the Biden-Harris administration, tribes got more of a say in Congress and tons more funding. A Trump-Vance win could upend that."
"When Indigenous community organizer Jade Begay, Tesuque Pueblo and Diné, found out that Donald Trump had won the election in November 2016, she was en route to Standing Rock from New Mexico to protest the Dakota Access pipeline."
"...years of opposition by Indigenous activists like Begay, who had filed lawsuits against the pipeline and then withstood freezing temperatures and armed police to block its construction after their legal challenges failed."
"But the moment Begay learned of Trump’s victory, sitting in a ramen shop in Colorado on her way north from New Mexico, she realized that win would be short-lived.
On January 24, 2017, just four days after his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and pave the way for the 1,172-mile pipeline to go online just five months later."
"Trump rolled back the Bears Ears Monument by 85 percent to open up the area for drilling, prompting lawsuits from Indigenous-led groups. He pushed forward the Keystone XL pipeline, again ignoring Native opposition. He sought to open up parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling despite opposition from Indigenous groups such as the Gwich’in Steering Committee and Cultural Survival."
"...border wall construction in Guadalupe Canyon, Arizona, harmed the Tohono O’odham Nation’s 10,000-year-old sacred burial ground.../\...to remove land from the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in New England, the first such move in several decades since the Termination Era."
"Daniel Cardenas from the National Tribal Energy Association said he appreciated the Trump administration’s support for tribes that wanted to pursue oil and gas production, and thought the Biden-Harris administration was too singularly focused on green energy.
But Indigenous environmental advocates, like Gussie Lord, a citizen of Oneida Nation and managing attorney of the Tribal Partnerships Program at Earthjustice, felt like they were overwhelmed during the Trump administration as they watched environmental regulations and commitments like the Paris Agreement fall one after the other."
"To Lord, Trump’s first term was packed with “real backwards-looking actions and a real backwards approach to tribal issues.”
#VoteBlue #UpAndDownTheBallot #ImWithHer
#TakeCareForEarth #StopBurnigThings #StopEcoside
“The science is clear that the climate crisis, driven by the continued expansion of fossil fuels, is causing weather events like this one to be more frequent and more intense. Data have shown that the damage caused by hurricanes can be exacerbated by warmer ocean temperatures caused by climate change and the associated sea level rise.”
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #HurricaneHelene #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow #ClimateScience #OceanWarming #ClimatePolitics
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/hurricane-helene-is-the-climate-crisis-in-action
477 #ClimatePolitics #USpolitics #Ballot
"The states where climate progress is on the ballot"
by Kate Yoder for Grist [Oct 01, 2024] [Audio available]
https://grist.org/elections/states-climate-progress-election-washington-minnesota/
Quotes:
"Getting laws passed is one thing. Protecting them from Republican opposition is another."
"After a decade of failed attempts to charge polluters for emitting carbon dioxide, Washington state’s landmark cap-and-trade program finally started up last year, raising billions of dollars for electric school buses, energy-efficient heat pumps, and free transit for young people, among other projects."
"In Minnesota, a law to move the state to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040, signed last year by Governor Tim Walz — now the Democratic vice presidential candidate — could lose momentum.../\... Democrats hold narrow majorities in the state legislature, and Republicans could gain enough seats to stall efforts to expand renewable power and derail plans to ensure that disadvantaged communities see the benefits of green projects."
“With Congress in gridlock, meaningful climate policy is moving through state legislatures, making state legislative elections absolutely crucial this year for advancing climate action,” said Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee."
"In states such as Arizona and New Hampshire, Democratic legislators have been waiting for an opportunity to take control and pass their climate agenda. It would only take flipping two seats in each of Arizona’s chambers to give Democrats a majority, opening the door to enact Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs’ plan to address the state’s water crisis and expand clean energy."
"Take the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, the landmark climate law signed by President Joe Biden in 2022, which has already put more than $360 billion toward clean energy and green technologies, like electric vehicle and battery projects. Republicans in Congress have tried to roll back provisions of the law dozens of times — even though most of its money is going to districts represented by Republicans, benefiting their constituents. Those threats have made some investors hesitant to put their weight behind cleantech projects."
"At the state level, however, even narrow majorities can deliver a lot of legislation. Since the 2022 election, Minnesota Democrats have had a “trifecta” — holding the governor’s seat and both legislative chambers — paving the way for long-planned climate policies to pass after years of waiting."
"The Republican candidate for that Senate seat, Kathleen Fowke, is married to the former CEO of Xcel Energy, a utility and natural gas company. Fowke is facing off against former state senator Ann Johnson Stewart, whose platform calls for “comprehensive solutions to our climate crisis.”
"Michigan, where Democrats also got a trifecta in 2022 and soon passed a law requiring the state to get 100 percent of its electricity from clean sources by 2040. “We’ve seen really just resounding and massive progress on clean energy and climate policy in Michigan,” said Nick Dodge, the communications director for the Michigan League of Conservation Voters."
"According to a recent report from the consulting firm 5 Lakes Energy, these policies, in combination with federal IRA funding, are expected to save families almost $300 on energy bills per year by 2030, as well as slash the state’s greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 65 percent."
"How Project 2025 Could Undermine Our Environment and Freedoms" [1:10 min]
by NowThis Impact [delilahisabel]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ac80eZqdZc
Quote by NTI:
"Sep 8, 2024
What if you had to pay to find out if you're driving into a tornado? Project 2025 wants you to pay to check the weather"
#VoteBlue #UpAndDownTheBallot #ImWithHer
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth #StopBurnigThings #StopEcoside
Last chance to sign up: I'll be joining as second faculty for a look at the politics of climate change. Readings include Ajay's new book on the subject.
I'm a scientist, and I'll assert that you can't understand climate change by understanding the science alone. You can't solve it with technology alone. It is fundamentally a political problem because it's caused by people and power. Join us to learn more!
https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/new-york/the-politics-of-climate-change-3/
439 #ClimatePolitics #ClimateAction #BidenHarris
"Republicans hit with poetic justice" [ < 1 min]
by briantylercohen
voters vote their purse
asking for cheap food and gas
and kinder physics
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #ClimateDenial #elections #politics #ClimatePolitics #FossilFuels #FoodInsecurity
Is There a Wrong Way to Talk About Climate Change?
#Environment #ClimateChange #CCN #ClimatePolitics #FossilFuels #Sustainability #ClimateAction #GreenEnergy
https://the-14.com/is-there-a-wrong-way-to-talk-about-climate-change/
I won't idolize China. There's a whole lot very wrong with the country; only to name their political system, the racsism, their [economic] colonialism and far more. But it's easy to go right when some of the Western countries are determined to go that wrong !
But one thing, contrary to the rich western countries, they recognized the existential threat to the planet and took early action on it. They'll have to with a very large population aspiring the same life style as the West.
And the centralized politics make very large activities possible.
But George Monbiot tells it better:
"What the West can learn from CHINA!" [3:31 min]
["We are being left behind in the fossil age" George Monbiot on China"]
by Double Down News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17WfqW_ZDFo
Quote by DDN:
"Jul 23, 2024
What the West can learn from China"
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