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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. National emissions goals are set on different bases and include differing gasses. The article explains why and illustrates the implications.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. The climate summit delivered some impressive national emissions targets. Still, more drastic cuts are required, of the US and others.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. The Guardian supplies another take on the national commitments with an eye to the goal of avoiding catastrophic global heating. So far, “There is not a single government that has the policies needed.” That ought not be too
alarming, as the Paris Agreement envisions a series of tightening ratchets on emissions every five years.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. The commitments and expressions of concern voiced at the climate summit answered my need for assurance that we know what to do and have decided to do it. Yet this is a trek we must make along a dangerous ridge.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. Most of the water we use comes from ground wells. A new study finds that 20% of them will go dry in the near future. “They suggest that unless something changes, access to fresh water may soon become one of the privileges of
the rich.” <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-04-environmental-scientists-global-groundwater-wells.html"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2021-04-environmental-scientists-global-groundwater-wells.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. They may be coming for your hamburgers after all. One think tank has predicted a collapse of the meat and dairy industry by 2030. The alternatives continue to improve.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Nathan’s is introducing a vegan hot dog.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Taco Bell is test marketing a vegan taco filling for their Cravetarian Taco. The filling may be substituted for the meat in any menu item. Trivial pleasures though such offerings may be, they should help ease the transition to
a plant-based diet. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://vegnews.com/2021/4/taco-bell-is-testing-vegan-meat"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://vegnews.com/2021/4/taco-bell-is-testing-vegan-meat</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">7. Merely providing alternatives will probably not produce a transition. In power production, transportation, and diet we will need to remove support for fossil fuels, internal combustion vehicles, and meat.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">8. In a major move, the US Senate has reinstated the Obama-era controls on methane emissions.
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