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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. The fossil fuel industry, in addition to generating scientific propaganda to oppose climate action, has sponsored economists willing to take the position that it would be too expensive to disrupt the corporations’ activities.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Grist interviewed Stanford’s Benjamin Franta, author of the article.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. Meat consumption in the UK has dropped 17% in the last decade. That is not yet where we need to be for the health of the planet (and of us citizens), but it is in the right direction.
</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/08/cuts-uk-meat-consumption-doubled-health-researchers-food?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20211008&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/08/cuts-uk-meat-consumption-doubled-health-researchers-food?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20211008&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. The UN human rights council has declared the right of all people to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. Within the next 30 years about a quarter of the US critical infrastructure and roads run the risk of flooding which would render them inoperable (infrastructure) or impassable (roads), according to a study by the First Street
Foundation. 85% of the most at-risk counties are in Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-street-foundation-releases-nationwide-resilience-report-finding-25-of-all-critical-infrastructure-and-23-of-roads-have-flood-risk-which-would-render-them-inoperable-301396504.html#:~:text=BROOKLYN%2C%20N.Y%2C%20Oct.%2011%2C%202021%20%2FPRNewswire%2F%20--%20First,city%20and%20county%20across%20the%20conterminous%20United%20States"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-street-foundation-releases-nationwide-resilience-report-finding-25-of-all-critical-infrastructure-and-23-of-roads-have-flood-risk-which-would-render-them-inoperable-301396504.html#:~:text=BROOKLYN%2C%20N.Y%2C%20Oct.%2011%2C%202021%20%2FPRNewswire%2F%20--%20First,city%20and%20county%20across%20the%20conterminous%20United%20States</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. The Swedish boatbuilder Candela has begun a line of electric hydrofoil boats which is outselling its ICE rivals. Their boats are 95% cheaper to operate than gas boats, and need far less maintenance.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://electrek.co/2021/10/08/candelas-c-8-flying-electric-boat-is-already-selling-better-than-gas-powered-boats/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://electrek.co/2021/10/08/candelas-c-8-flying-electric-boat-is-already-selling-better-than-gas-powered-boats/</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. The Global Cement and Concrete Association, whose members are responsible for manufacturing 80% of the world’s supply outside China, has pledged to cut its carbon emissions up to 25% by 2030 and entirely by 2050, without depending
on offsets or subsidies. The industry is responsible for 7-8% of global CO2 emissions.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/12/cement-makers-across-world-pledge-large-cut-in-emissions-by-2030-co2-net-zero-2050?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20211012&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily">
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