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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">1. The environmental virtues of plant-based milks are illustrated in a series of graphs comparing them to dairy milk.
</span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2022/12/19/graph-of-the-day-impacts-of-dairy-vs-veggie-milk/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://climatecrocks.com/2022/12/19/graph-of-the-day-impacts-of-dairy-vs-veggie-milk/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">2. Antonio Guterres, UN secretary general, announced a climate ambition summit for September. The price of admission is a “serious new climate action which will move the needle forward.” He said that the
1.5C goal “is gasping for breath.” </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/19/climate-goal-15c-gasping-breath-un-head-antonio-guterres" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/19/climate-goal-15c-gasping-breath-un-head-antonio-guterres</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">3. The US participated in COP 15, developing goals which the US has supported in a treaty which has no chance of US passage because of Republican opposition in the senate. There, 67 votes are required to
ratify a treaty. One way for the US to support the global effort without ratifying the treaty would be to adopt a National Biodiversity Strategy.
</span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/united-states-not-party-global-treaty-protect-wildlife?&suppress=true&utm_source=insider&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/united-states-not-party-global-treaty-protect-wildlife?&suppress=true&utm_source=insider&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">4. The US failure to join the Convention on Biological Diversity goes back to the elder George Bush’s presidency, when Republican opposition prevented US participation in a treaty we took a leading role
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</span>biodiversity treaty, as with others having to do with human rights, the environment, and international cooperation. Republican senators appear to like to keep options open (and unexamined).
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://www.vox.com/22434172/us-cbd-treaty-biological-diversity-nature-conservation" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.vox.com/22434172/us-cbd-treaty-biological-diversity-nature-conservation</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">5. The world’s largest and most powerful wind turbine is being assembled in Denmark. Its wingspan is 774 feet, and it could power 20,000 European homes on its own. The design has been selected for three
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</span><a href="https://electrek.co/2022/12/22/worlds-most-powerful-wind-turbine-vestas/" class="ContentPasted0">https://electrek.co/2022/12/22/worlds-most-powerful-wind-turbine-vestas/</a><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">6. After some skirmishing, the US<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span>postal service is converting entirely to electric trucks as of 2026.
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