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Category: climate change

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Post #125: Our Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?

5 Aug 201627 Feb 2017
Since beginning my blog in January 2014, I have written several pieces on the urgency of dealing with climate change and other large-scale environmental challenges—challenges that I have argued constitute…
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Post #101: The Paris Climate-Change Agreement: Hold the Champagne

15 Dec 201527 Feb 2017
  Ban Ki-moon called it “a monumental success for the planet and its people.”  Secretary of State Kerry said it was “a tremendous victory for all of our citizens—not for…
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Post #100: China in Paris

7 Dec 201527 Feb 2017
Xi Jinping is a lucky man: He got to spend a few days in Paris, at the UN Conference on Climate Change, while his fellow Beijingers suffered under some of…
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Post #93: A Tale of Two Visitors

28 Sep 201527 Feb 2017
What a strange week it was: Pope Francis arriving in the east and President Xi Jinping arriving in the west.  One had just come from preaching in Cuba in the…

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