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BRANDEN CAMPIn this 2017 file photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation s top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga.. World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned. BRANDEN CAMP
Published: 3/15/2021 10:14:29 AM
A few weeks into the new administration, the federal government is off to a roaring start on climate change. Democrats have indicated climate change is a priority issue they intend to tackle. President Biden signed a raft of executive orders related to climate change, elevating the issue across the federal government. The Senate Majority leader directed all relevant Senate committees to begin holding hearings on climate. And the Speaker of the House, no stranger to the fight for climate legislation, is ready for round two.
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Nearly nine out of ten Nantucketers are seriously worried about the local effects of climate change, according to a new survey.
The survey by environmental advocacy groups ReMain Nantucket and ACKlimate found that 88 percent of Nantucket residents and regular visitors say they’re “alarmed” or “concerned” about how the effects of climate change could shape the island’s future.
The groups worked with Boston-based consulting firm EBP to conduct the survey, as part of an initiative to increase visibility for a climate initiative known as the “Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge.”
“The Challenge, a virtual design studio currently underway, will produce proposals for Nantucket’s waterfront in the face of sea level rise from five participating universities. The final design proposals will be presented to the community at a public event this spring,” according to a press release.
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China keeps head high facing unprecedented challenges in its global rise
Wang Wen Published: Mar 01, 2021 05:48 PM
Illustration: Tang Tengfei/GTChina is facing a more complicated, difficult and diversified external environment for its rise than any other emerging powers in history since the modernization of humanity. International society today witnesses world historical seismic shifts: climate change and ecology, fierce competition between major powers and fragile national security in the digital era. Combined with external moral restraints on China s willingness for peaceful development, all are resonating with each other, setting a chain of obstacles for the nation s rise.
To begin with, China is the only global emerging power that has to care about the ecological variables since modern industrialization. Be it the era of colonial expansion or the industrial age, the West didn t have to pay extra development costs for destroying the ecology of other countries, nor for pol
After coming under fire for not doing enough to stop climate myths from spreading on its site, Facebook will now add info labels to climate change posts and direct users to a fact-checked website. But is it enough?