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Ideas Festival 2020: Jill Carr With John Schwartz — Maplewood Library
REGISTER HERE Wife of the late David Carr and editor of his book Final Draft . Jill Rooney Carr works in hospitality in the New York City area. She and David Carr married in 1994. She will be in conversation with New York Times reporter John...
The Age of Electric Cars Is Dawning Ahead of Schedule
Battery prices are dropping faster than expected. Analysts are moving up projections of when an electric vehicle won’t need government incentives to be cheaper than a gasoline model.
U.S. and European Oil Giants Go Different Ways on Climate Change
While BP and other European companies invest billions in renewable energy, Exxon and Chevron are committed to fossil fuels and betting on moonshots.
An Alaska Mine Project Might Be Bigger Than Acknowledged
In secretly recorded meetings, executives with the Pebble Mine project said the operation could run nine times longer than outlined in their permit filings.
We Made Wildfire an Enemy for 110 Years. It Could Have Been an Ally.
Starting with the Big Blowup of 1910, the U.S. Forest Service’s strategy mostly has been to put out fires as fast as possible. With climate change and shifting populations, we’re losing that war.
Democratic Donors Push Biden for a Cabinet Free of Fossil Fuel Connections
A group of more than 60 donors is urging Joe Biden to renounce advisers with ties to the fossil fuel industry.
John Schwartz
“Obviously the Republicans will attack Democrats for going too far, but I would much rather be playing the hand of somebody who takes climate change seriously than playing the hand of somebody who describes it as a hoax.” from @LFFriedman & @thomaskaplan
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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches a Low, Just Missing Record
Only 2012 had less sea ice coverage, scientists say, as climate change takes its toll in the region.
John Schwartz
Since satellite measurements of sea ice began four decades ago, only 2012 has had a lower minimum.
This year also continues an alarming streak: The 14 lowest ice years have occurred in the past 14 years. @henryfountain
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Ideas Festival — Maplewood Library
John Schwartz
TOMORROW: Jill Rooney Carr will be talking about her wonderful book "Final Draft: The Collected Works of David Carr" at the Maplewood Ideas Festival. I'll be doing the interview, and you can register to watch here
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‘We May Be Surprised Again’: An Unpredictable Pandemic Takes a Terrible Toll
At least 73 countries are seeing surges in newly detected cases, and in regions where cold weather is approaching, worries are mounting.
DOJ Designates New York City as an “Anarchist Jurisdiction”
New York City is one of three places that “have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities,” leading to its designation as an “anarchist...
Robert S. Graetz, Rare White Minister to Back Bus Boycott, Dies at 92
The Rev. Robert S. Graetz resisted the menacing of the Ku Klux Klan and isolation among fellow clergymen to be an unbowed voice for desegregation among white people in Alabama.
John Schwartz
“I have always contended that the absence of fear is not the point,” Rev. Graetz wrote. "What you do when you are afraid is what makes the difference. We often had good reason to be afraid.” A beautiful obit from @alanblinder
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Tropical Storm Beta, Forecast to Move Inland Monday, Churns in the Gulf
The storm is headed for the Texas and Louisiana coast, another blow for states in the Gulf that have been hit by five other storms this hurricane season.
How California Became Ground Zero for Climate Disasters
The engineering and land management that enabled the state’s tremendous growth have left it more vulnerable to climate shocks — and those shocks are getting worse.
With Flags, Crosses and Photos, Mourning 200,000 Dead
Those left behind must grieve in a country still firmly gripped by the coronavirus pandemic. Everywhere they turn, there is a reminder of their pain.
John Schwartz
"She is coping in the modern way: deleting friends from her Facebook account." Dealing with loss from coronavirus in a time when there is no getting away from the subject — or the yelling about it.
@juliebosman @sergenyt @JaceyFortin
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How California Became Ground Zero for Climate Disasters
The engineering and land management that enabled the state’s tremendous growth have left it more vulnerable to climate shocks — and those shocks are getting worse.
John Schwartz
“There’s this story that we can have it all, and that’s just not true.” Californians transformed an arid and mountainous landscape into the richest, most populous and bounteous place in the U.S. — and more subject to climate disasters. The amazing @cflav
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Fires Scorch a Way of Life That Still Grows From the Trees
Oregon’s fate has always been intertwined with the forests that blanket the state. Now millions of trees are charred, and those who live from them face a future full of uncertainty.
Nursing Homes Oust Unwanted Patients With Claims of Psychosis
They are finding what families say are pretexts to send patients to hospitals for psychiatric care — and then refusing to let them return.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s Feminist Icon, Is Dead at 87
The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg’s pointed and powerful dissenting opinions earned her late-life rock stardom.
No, a Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Didn’t Partner With a Pro-Communist Chinese Group
A Heritage Foundation investigation went viral on Thursday, but it conflated two nonprofits with the same name.
A Deal on Drug Prices Undone by White House Insistence on ‘Trump Cards’
The White House and the pharmaceutical industry were nearing a major deal to lower drug prices. Then the administration demanded that $100 cash cards be sent to millions of seniors before the election — and the industry balked.