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Why we will never win the argument on climate change

Terra Infirma

Sometimes a diagram sums up a whole load of messy thoughts and when I saw the graph below on what will inevitably happen when we get to grips with Covid-19 ( drawn by Ethan Lee ), I thought “that’s exactly what I was thinking, but expressed much more clearly than I ever could!”

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

Tell me why that feels like such an important part of who you became. I will never forget seeing Hiroshima and saying, "Oh, my God. We had a war. How could we invent something so astonishing as a device that can destroy cities in seconds?" And to take a peek into where he may be headed next. Are you excited to be 70?

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

Critics of the net zero transition are trying to blame it for the UK's economic woes, but their arguments are looking increasingly detached from the modern world. It is a political movement that has taken 'never apologise, never explain' through to its nihilistic end game, where nothing matters and even less makes sense.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Each storm season brings increased stress and fear for the people of Kivalina, a tiny Native village of some 400 Inupiaq people that sits on a small barrier island on the shore of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. A bridg e to the mainland was only recently completed. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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'Triple win': From the CBI to Greenpeace, calls grow for emergency energy efficiency blitz

Business Green

Coalition of top businesses call on government to invest £5bn in home insulation in Friday's mini-Budget. It is a perennial feature of the political calendar, as painstakingly co-ordinated as Party Conference season or the state opening of Parliament. And then, as tradition dictates, he ignores them. Could this week be different?

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

AGreenLiving

Tell me why that feels like such an important part of who you became. All photos courtesy of William McDonough I will never forget seeing Hiroshima and saying, “Oh, my God. We had a war. How could we invent something so astonishing as a device that can destroy cities in seconds?” Are you excited to be 70?

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COP26: Taking on the takes

Business Green

The tidal wave of broadly positive announcements at the COP26 Climate Summit this week has been met by a storm surge of molten hot media takes, far too many of which have singularly failed to engage with the historic significance of what might be happening in Glasgow. What sacrifices are you willing to make for climate change?'.

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