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Palau to ban sunscreen products to protect reefs
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What should I do with my broken kettle?
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Seychelles issues world’s first blue bond to fund fisheries projects
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Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds Don't misread the headline like I did when I saw it! This isn't about extinctions: we haven't killed off 60% of species. We...
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
Don't misread the headline like I did when I saw it! This isn't about extinctions: we haven't killed off 60% of species. We have reduced the population of all animals by an average of 60%.
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The big meltdown - As the Antarctic Peninsula heats up, the rules of life there are being ripped apart
11 votes -
NDIS funds to be 'repurposed' for drought relief under Australian PM Scott Morrison's plan
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is betting his reelection on a carbon tax
8 votes -
Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament
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Scenes from the new Cold War unfolding at the top of the world
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The nurdles are coming: Wave of 1 billion plastic pellets heading to WA's south coast
8 votes -
The con at the heart of the Atlantic Coast pipeline
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What's really warming the world?
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Super typhoon Yutu, 'strongest storm of 2018,' slams US Pacific Territory
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Why there's a perfectly rectangular iceberg floating in Antarctica
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The bison returns to the Great American Plains
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The next president of the US makes climate change their top priority. What should be their first actions?
Let's assume that they have full control over congress, so politics isn't an issue. I think looking at what a good global climate policy would be useful, because it allows us to see where we...
Let's assume that they have full control over congress, so politics isn't an issue. I think looking at what a good global climate policy would be useful, because it allows us to see where we stand. It could also serve as a platform for future candidates.
It seems to me that the new president should take a wide-ranging series of measures to curb emissions in all the major domains: electricity, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, etc. [1]. You might argue that measures taken in isolation from other countries are not sufficient. While that's true, someone has to start. The US taking the lead on climate change would have a profound impact on all other countries. The US could use its very strong diplomatic weight to pressure other countries to adopt similar measures.
So what should these measures be? The major one would seem to be a carbon tax, applied to all major sources of emissions: energy production (coal plants, ...), agriculture (cattle and meat imports), jet fuel (current taxes are very low), etc. Another one could be a tax on imports depending on how much the exporting country does against global warming. Maybe a new kind of free trade alliance among "climate-virtuous" countries could be created.
Any thoughts? Have any serious global policy proposals been made and studied in the past?
[1] : https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-climate-change
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A fourteen-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history
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Victory for 'Valve Turners' as Judge Allows 'Necessity Defense' for Climate Trial
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Opioid darts, helicopters, refrigerator trucks: How to move a goat from one mountain range to another
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Microplastics found in ninety percent of table salt
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About 135 French MPs launch a transpartisan climate collective
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Climate change and the 75% problem
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'For the Pacific it's always about cash': Australian Environment Minister in diplomatic incident over climate change
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Study of Puerto Rico rainforest shows massive, climate-driven decline in population of insects and insect-eating animals
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The hidden air pollution inside your workplace
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The Keeper of the Ghost Trees (Albino Redwoods) - Great Big Story
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Hurricane Michael showed how woefully unprepared the military is for extreme weather
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UK scientists turn coffee industry waste into electricity
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Flash floods and landslides kill at least twenty-seven on Indonesian island of Sumatra
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Indonesia unveils low carbon development framework
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What are you doing to reduce your impact?
Impact can be in many different areas (carbon emissions, energy use, water, plastics, land use, advocacy etc etc). I just want to know something you're doing that helps the environment. It can be...
Impact can be in many different areas (carbon emissions, energy use, water, plastics, land use, advocacy etc etc). I just want to know something you're doing that helps the environment. It can be big or small, something you've done for a long time, just started or want to implement soon.
I'll start, about 18 months ago I bought a bike and started cycling again. Most of my shorter journeys are now by bike and I'm looking at cycling to work.
Environmental news is often really bleak, lets hear some positive efforts!
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If you want your children to see a coral reef, join the left
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Oysters on the half shell are helping save New York's eroding harbor
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Bill Gates backs Washington State's carbon-fee Initiative 1631 to fight what may be 'toughest problem humanity has ever faced'
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Photos: What Hurricane Michael’s destruction looks like on the ground
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Nestle, Tim Hortons and Pepsi are the three worst plastic polluters in Canada: Greenpeace
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Scientists say halting deforestation 'just as urgent' as reducing emissions
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Colorado’s recreation roadmap makes it one of the only states to fuse outdoor play, environmental protection
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'You Just Don't Touch That Tap Water Unless Absolutely Necessary'
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Architect of Paris climate accord says Morrison government's emissions stance is 'anti-science'
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America isn’t ready for the lanternfly invasion
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Left to Louisiana’s tides, a village fights for time
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The Brutal Truth About Climate Change: William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is brilliant, but it offers no comfort to its readers
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Photos from the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia
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Shift in large-scale Atlantic circulation causes lower-oxygen water to invade Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence
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Two years since South Australia was plunged into darkness during a statewide blackout, new light has been shed on the cost of the Tesla battery.
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At least forty-eight killed after series of quakes and a tsunami hit Indonesia
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Tsunami hits Indonesia's Palu after strong earthquake
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Human-driven climate change is literally making Earth ‘wobble’
10 votes