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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Please share our Stay Informed link with your personal networks. That's also the place to catch up on previous newsletters if you missed them.
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Speaker: David Harries Topic: GOALS FOR EVERYTHING FOR ALL (G4E4A) ….AGAIN? Maybe a Few? Time: Oct 25, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: In 1970 the UNGA established 0.7% of GNP, or GNI, as rich nations’ target for Overseas Development Assistance. Very few countries have ever achieved it. Thirty years later, in the worried excitement about the arrival of 2000, …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Jerome Clayton Glenn Topic: Transition from Artificial Narrow to Artificial General Intelligence Governance. Time: Nov 01, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89608062055?pwd=VzFzdzdLM0RmWldyOFlESkJQTk1Sdz09 Meeting ID: 896 0806 2055 Passcode: 230157 Summary: The Millennium Project has completed the first phase of an international assessment of how to govern the …
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Politics 101 - Part 1 The Challenges of Democracy Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried. – Churchill When I look at the state of my city, my province, my country and my world I cringe in embarrassment. It appears that our species governs itself now as badly as we …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Simon has simply discovered the trick used with great effectiveness by certain comedians, talk show hosts and punk rock musicians: people of modest talent can attract attention, at least for a while, by being unrelentingly offensive. Steven Pinker, author and psychology professor (b. 1954) Phenomenon also observed in Canadian politics.
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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"...About 56 million years ago Earth became very hot again—as hot as it ever has been. This was the so-called Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the PETM. Are we headed for that instead? "This is the same as the Great Dying. Scientists no longer think that methane played a major role in the PETM. But there is a different lesson. The PETM is …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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The residential battery market is booming with new entrants like Anker, Duracell, and Energizer. These brands are revolutionizing home energy storage.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Why there is a bear market in rhinos It is too expensive to protect them from poachers Sep 26th 2023 | NORTHERN CAPE How many people does it take to move a rhinoceros? Your correspondent suspects that the answer is “as many as you can find”. On a recent morning in the Northern Cape, South Africa’s largest province by area, a veterinarian fired …
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A World in Crisis is set in the year 2060, when the entire world has been plunged into chaos due to one hundred and fifty years of environmental bastardisation. The testing of atomic bombs brought unsustainable pressures on the earth's mantle. The disasters of global warming were caused by unparalleled pollution and uncontrolled population growth. One man rediscovers a long-lost cave …
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Categories: Book Reviews, Books & Reviews, CACOR Writers
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) and micro modular reactors (MMRs) are revolutionizing nuclear power. They offer advantages like lower costs and increased flexibility in deployment. SMRs and MMRs can be easily transported and installed, making them ideal for remote communities and military operations. However, ensuring their safety and security during transit is a challenge that requires specialized transportation systems.
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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Electric vehicles (EVs) significantly cut lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions in almost all circumstances and are the key technology for decarbonising road transport. While not having a car has even larger climate benefits, many peoples’ ability to go car-free is limited by their circumstances and the availability of alternatives. This means EVs are “likely crucial” for tackling transport emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). EV sales are …
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With record heat waves, labor unrest, and other emerging signs of the limits to growth, could the U.S. be ready for a movement to challenge and replace the status quo? The environmental and social costs of continuous economic growth are too much to bear, from climate chaos, species extinctions, and resource depletion to rampant inequality, persistent poverty, and diminishing ability …
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Tesla may dominate the global EV market — but for drivers in Japan, a $13,000 tiny car is proving a better investment. Data compiled by Bloomberg shows the Sakura — a $13,000 minicar developed jointly by Nissan and Mitsubishi — is the best-selling electric car in Japan this year, accounting for about half of all EVs sold in the country so …
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The Globe and Mail published today a letter from Rick Carpenter Market forces Re “Every little thing” (Letters, Oct. 19): The climate problem is indeed intricate but, according to science, not insoluble – yet. With frustratingly slow progress so far, governments seek unprecedented levels of global co-operation in the climate process. More encouraging are the markets coaxing us toward benign choices. Mounting financial losses, …
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Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as …
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Montreal joins growing wave of cities banning natural gas Another Canadian city has taken the step to get natural gas, a planet-warming fossil fuel, out of buildings. This week, Montreal announced it will no longer allow gas in new buildings of up to three storeys as of October 2024, and ban the fossil fuel as of April 2025 in …
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In this essay-review, the author considers the Dark Mountain manifesto and the movement it inspired, including both the later work of Paul Kingsnorth and especially that of Dougald Hine in his book At Work Among the Ruins. He then goes on to examine related recent work: a chapter by Maggie Nelson and, at more length, An Inconvenient Apocalypse by Wes …
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The rapacious pursuit of economic growth, materialist ideas of progress, and presumptions of human exceptionalism founded in some religions and Enlightenment thinking, continue, it seems, to drive forward today’s globally dominating worldview. At root, then, it could be said that the problem of today’s world-in-crisis is fundamentally an axial crisis of perception. A crisis that revolves around how we apprehend the …
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Climate emergency and political will—reaching beyond human usefulness. Editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Juliet Dobson (BMJ managing editor), Sophie Cook (BMJ Medicine editor-in-chief), Florence Wedmore (IMT3 doctor with Barts Health NHS Trust), and Kamran Abbasi (BMJ editor-in-chief) Our response requires courage, collaboration, and the wisdom to learn from others. Health professionals have warned about the impact …
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Carbon cut or not, a key part of Antarctica is 'doomed,' study says. Key Content: NASA scientist Kate Marvel, saying “when it comes to climate change we need courage and not hope. Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending.” 'Our main question here was: How much control do we still have over …
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