{"id":9046,"date":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/2018\/10\/11\/an-article-worth-reading\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","slug":"an-article-worth-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/2018\/10\/11\/an-article-worth-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"An article worth reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
This New York Times article<\/a> summarizes the state of the climate challenge very well. For those who do not have time to read it all, here are some key excerpts:<\/div>\n

We\u2019d need to spread the world\u2019s best climate practices globally \u2014 like electric cars in Norway, energy efficiency in California, land protection in Costa Rica, solar and wind power in China, vegetarianism in India, bicycle use in the Netherlands.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019d face opposition the whole way. To have a prayer of 1.5 degrees Celsius, we would need to leave most of the remaining coal, oil and gas underground, compelling the Exxon Mobils and Saudi Aramcos to forgo anticipated revenues of over\u00a0$33<\/span>\u00a0trillion over the next 25 years.<\/em><\/div>\n
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And while the air would almost immediately be cleaner and people healthier, the heartbreaking impacts of climate change \u2014 flooding in London, New York and Shanghai, as well as in Mumbai, India; Hanoi, Vietnam; Alexandria, Egypt; and Jakarta, Indonesia, to touch on just one consequence \u2014 would continue for decades, regardless of emissions cuts, because of the long life of man-made greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Solving climate is going to be harder, and more improbable, than winning World War II, achieving civil rights, defeating bacterial infection and sending a man to the moon all together.<\/em><\/div>\n
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There\u2019s good news: We\u2019re perfect for the job. If the human species specializes in one thing, it\u2019s taking on the impossible.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Our actions must be to scale, so while we undertake individual steps in our lives, like retrofitting light bulbs, we must realize that real progress comes from voting, running for office, marching in protest, writing letters, and uncomfortable but respectful conversations with fathers-in-law. This work must be habitual. Every day some learning and conversation. Every week a call to Congress. Every year a donation to a nonprofit advancing the cause. In other words, a practice.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This New York Times article summarizes the state of the climate challenge very well. For those who do not have time to read it all, here are some key excerpts: We\u2019d need to spread the world\u2019s best climate practices globally \u2014 like electric cars in Norway, energy efficiency in California, land protection in Costa Rica, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=9046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8405\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}