My own behavior has changed over the last two years in the course of Amasia’s research into sustainability and climate change. For this new year of 2021, I am sharing a more personal manifesto.
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The table at the end of this post, which can be sorted and filtered, lays out goals and actions regarding climate and the environment for six Bay Area counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Marin.
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I’ve come late to the realization that the fight against the coronavirus is truly a war. It has a well-defined enemy; it has invaded our home front; it requires total mobilization. A year or two from now, your child (or friend or relative or colleague) is going to ask: what did you do in the war? Your answer better be a good one.
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I’m almost exclusively vegetarian. I am so by choice but after reading this article I wanted to dig a little deeper about the interrelationship with climate. TL;DR: it is much more complicated than you think (or I thought before Alina Goh pulled together a bunch of research).
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Third and last in my series of “factoid” posts about climate denial.
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I am going to dribble out “factoid” posts about climate denial. These are not intended for actual climate deniers. As I’ve written elsewhere, droning on about the data is not going to make a difference. It is for people I think of as “climate-aware” — to provide useful Information that might clarify things in your own mind.
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The structure of modern life, from the conveniences in the First World to the massive poverty alleviation that has taken place in the Third World, is dependent on energy consumption. Nobody is going to sign up for being back in the Stone Age, foraging for berries and communicating by smoke signal. And yet: there are simple things we can all do to “do our bit” without feeling like we’ve taken a hatchet to that which makes life worth living.
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This essay is a reaction to Don’t Even Think About It, by George Marshall. This is not an academic work. It is conversational and accessible, and I found it interesting enough to want to inflict my response on an unsuspecting world.
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