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Book review: Saving the Planet Without the B t, by Assaad Razzouk

A Greener Life

What matter most is ending fossil fuels , and breaking the power of the corporations that keep us addicted to them. Over the course of the book, Razzouk takes on plastic, flying, nuclear power, offsets, green finance, and a variety of other solutions and non-solutions. Sometimes this leads to a contradiction.

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2021 in review – another year of climate extremes?

A Greener Life

This involved continuing to decommission its last six nuclear power plants, even though a reversal would at least preserve some low-carbon electricity capacity. There was some progress reached on ending deforestation and phasing out coal before, as in true COP tradition in the 11th hour and, a deal was struck.

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