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@sh.itjust.workshttps://grist.org/energy/most-americans-want-to-electrify-their-homes-if-they-can-keep-their-gas-stoves/
A poll finds less than one-third of Americans want a fully electric home. It jumps to 60 percent if people can continue cooking with gas.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/03/knife-edge-quest-lord-of-the-rings-resonates-cop28
Tolkien’s hostility to rampant industrialisation should chime with the nations represented in Dubai
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4335298-cop28-united-nations-climate-conference-loss-and-damage-fund-agreement/
The international COP28 climate summit has reached an agreement on the logistics of a loss and damage fund, a mechanism to compensate vulnerable nations for the impact of climate change, organizers…
https://grist.org/food/thought-experiment-ending-meat-consumption/
“It would have huge consequences — a lot of them probably not anticipated,” one researcher said.
https://apnews.com/article/can-meatless-mondays-help-environment-b09eaab6cbdce176debff415b48b1ec0
One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat. A new poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that most U.S. adults said they eat meat at least several times a week.
https://www.wri.org/news/release-state-climate-action-report-finds-progress-lags-every-measure-except-ev-sales
WASHINGTON (November 14, 2023) – Global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C are failing across the board, with recent progress made on every indicator — except electric passenger car sales — lagging significantly behind the pace and scale that is necessary to address the climate crisis, according to the State of Climate Action 2023 report.
https://grist.org/agriculture/why-cant-we-just-quit-cows/
Eating less beef, cheese, and ice cream would slash emissions. But given the nation's taste for them, science strives to make climate-friendlier cows.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-ag-pressured-fao
"Wherever you go, whatever you do, if it involves revealing anything about the devastating impacts of animal agriculture... you are beaten down for it," said one advocate.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90940949/why-a-carbon-tax-on-investment-income-could-make-it-less-profitable-to-pollute
https://www.fastcompany.com/90940949/why-a-carbon-tax-on-investment-income-could-make-it-less-profitable-to-pollute