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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. Venice’s government offices were flooded two minutes after the regional council rejected a package of measures to counter the climate crisis.
</span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venice-flooding-council-is-flooded-moments-after-rejecting-climate-change-measures/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venice-flooding-council-is-flooded-moments-after-rejecting-climate-change-measures/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. Superfund sites are the most heavily polluted locations in the country. At least 60% are vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis and require action, according to a report by the Government Accounting Office.
</span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/superfund-sites-gao-government-watchdog-warning-vulnerability-climate-change-today-2019-11-18/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/superfund-sites-gao-government-watchdog-warning-vulnerability-climate-change-today-2019-11-18/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. LESS is a super slippery toilet coating developed at Penn State which cuts the water needed for a flush in half, and slides away bacteria too. The coating process takes five minutes. Our looming water shortage is eased.
</span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-11-slippery-toilet-coating-cleaner-flushing.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2019-11-slippery-toilet-coating-cleaner-flushing.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. The transition to renewable energy will cut illness from air pollution by 80%. As of 2050, five million fewer people will suffer an early death. The same study warns that biofuels require 100 times more land than solar power.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-11-renewables-power-health-impact-percent.html"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2019-11-renewables-power-health-impact-percent.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. The startup company Heliogen uses artificial intelligence and mirrors to create a concentrating solar oven capable of forging steel and manufacturing glass and cement. It may also create hydrogen for fuel on an industrial scale,
replacing the natural gas now used as a source. The venture is backed by Bill Gates.
</span><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heliogens-tech-could-unlock-renewable-110105563.html">https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heliogens-tech-could-unlock-renewable-110105563.html</a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. Bill McKibben reminds us that our attempt to cope with the climate crisis is a pass or fail test (where B+ is F), and it’s timed. Time is short. (And we don’t know exactly how short, or quite what the passing grade is. Makes
us nervous.) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/20/climate-crisis-its-now-or-never-to-avert-catastrophe">
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/20/climate-crisis-its-now-or-never-to-avert-catastrophe</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">7. We are producing twice as much fossil fuel as we can burn and still hold heating to 1.5C. “We’re in a deep hole – and we need to stop digging.”
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/20/fossil-fuel-production-on-track-for-double-the-safe-climate-limit">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/20/fossil-fuel-production-on-track-for-double-the-safe-climate-limit</a></span></p>
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