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Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Biden’s Civilian Climate Corps comes straight out of the New Deal February 9, 2021 9:08 AM CDT By Kate Yoder Biden got his idea for a Civilian Climate Corps from Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal. | National Archives and Records Administration. The article below is reprinted...

When rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the assault hinted at the risks of politics unmoored from facts. That can threaten the very fabric of society. That an incoming U.S. president devoted part of his inaugural address to insist that facts are, in fact, factual reveals just how much of a beating the truth has taken. Over the past five years, politics have motivated huge swaths of the American public to abandon not just facts, but also the system of logic and standards of evidence used to estab...

Struck by Amazon fires, Brazilians say they want greater environmental protection Reuters 2/5/2021 By Meghie Rodrigues SAO PAULO, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than three-quarters of Brazilians think Amazon rainforest fires have hurt the countrys image - and that environmental protection should become a priority for the country, even at an economic cost, a new survey has found. The study on climate change views, organized by Brazils Institute of Technology and Society and the U.S....

When rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the assault hinted at the risks of politics unmoored from facts. That can threaten the very fabric of society. That an incoming U.S. president devoted part of his inaugural address to insist that facts are, in fact, factual reveals just how much of a beating the truth has taken. Over the past five years, politics have motivated huge swaths of the American public to abandon not just facts, but also the system of logic and standards of evidence used to estab...

Cate Dingley/Bloomberg via Getty Images Last year, presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigned on a bold climate plan that included cleaning up America’s electricity system by 2035 with a federal Clean Electricity Standard (CES). A national CES, which would require utilities increase their share of renewable and carbon pollution-free electricity, is an old idea. But the ambition — 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 — was new. By the end of the campaign, whenever he brought up climate ...

Illustration by Elijah White, Updated 9:26, Feb. 10, 2021 | Published 14:30, Feb. 3, 2021 On September 1, 2019, the category five storm Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas with gusts of 354 kilometres per hour and storm surges of over six metres. Instead of sweeping up what it could before steadily moving on, Dorian was patient, pummelling the islands for over forty hours straight. More than 70,000 people were displaced and 13,000 homes destroyed. On land, as the morgues filled u...

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proposing a ban on gas boilers in new homes, given the lower-carbon options now available. While humans have known about a flammable gas in the ground for thousands of years, the first known use of the term "natural gas" didnt come until 1825, said Trish Stewart, a science editor at the OED. It was linked to the arrival at the time of another energy innovation: manufactured gas, which was made by combusting coal, oil and other products. By the 1820s, manufactured gas was being made in gasworks ...

Any Biden Climate Action Plan Must Focus on Renewables Jan 22, 2021 President Joe Biden has given every indication that his administration will take climate action seriously. And a majority of voting Americans agree with that, especially when it comes to advancing clean energy goals, according to a recent survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. While 53 percent of those surveyed felt that climate ...