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Book review: Climate Change Isn’t Everything, by Mike Hulme

A Greener Life

A focus on an abstract numerical definition of progress that knows no nuance and can lead to all sorts of perverse outcomes. One is the idea that ‘climatism’ is endemic across politics and the media. Climate change isn’t the dominant explanation and fails Hulme’s definition. I read books like this one in order to do better.

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Harnessing the Ocean’s Power to Combat the Climate Crisis

Law Columbia

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. And do the economic, social, and environmental benefits and risks posed by these activities justify their use?

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

If the Pact is approved, we will have a new normative tool that could be useful to promote definitive transformations in the way in which environmental issues are decided in public and private scenarios. Several countries in the Global South are generally not opposed to environmental protection.

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Guide to Parasitology

Environmental Science

While a parasite's existence is not, by definition, beneficial to the host species, they are beneficial in many ecological ways (8). Just one hundred years ago, it was endemic to Western Australia but with only 5,600 of their numbers, is on the brink of extinction. The situation for its most common parasite is even direr (49).

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Declaring a Climate Change Emergency: A Citizen’s Guide

Legal Planet

Microgrids combined with distributed solar could also be useful in the wake of natural disasters like the hurricanes endemic to the Gulf Coast. There was never a definitive ruling about Trump’s (probably illegal) diversion of other funds to pay for the wall, because of issues about legal standing to challenge the action.