A: Decarbonization Let me start with an important caveat. I have serious reservations about the wisdom of this war of choice. I wish it had never started, and I’m not going to try to adjudicate the geopolitics or the conduct of the conflict here. Others are doing that in real time, and they’re more qualified […]
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Fighting for the Facts “We aren’t just fighting climate change anymore — we’re fighting for the right to use facts to solve it.” Editor’s Note: Every so often, a piece of science writing lands with the clarity of a warning bell that reverberates in your mind. The publication of Robert McDonald and colleagues’ new study
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Which hard decisions are you willing to make? As you’ve probably seen, the Trump administration just took its most damaging climate step yet by scrapping the EPA’s endangerment finding—the scientific and legal backbone for regulating greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S. It’s a move that doesn’t just weaken specific rules; it tries to erase the underlying
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Get to Know Bruce Friedrich Can we fix our environmental problems by persuading people to eat lentils instead of burgers? Bruce Friedrich doesn’t think so. Global demand for meat and seafood is enormous, and it’s projected to keep rising for decades to come. But our current industrial meat system is a major driver of climate
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Will Business and NGO Leaders Step Up to the Opportunity? AI’s newfound omnipresence can lend it a deceptively light feel. You power on a laptop or phone and there it is, accompanying you wherever your work or pleasure may take you. But there is a big, concrete side to all that cloud computing: the data
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Lessons from Investor/Thinker/Doer Jeremy Grantham Every once in a while, a book comes along that perfectly exemplifies what this newsletter tries to encourage: the idea that each of us can make a real difference if we’re smart and strategic in how we go about it. Jeremy Grantham’s new memoir, The Making of a Permabear, is one
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So…what exactly should we all be doing right now? This past year was a tough one for environmentalists. Not everything was a bust. But momentum that once looked irreversible lost steam the world over, especially in the US on the public policy side. We think most of our readers will agree, one way or another,
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