What metaphor will characterise America's post-Bush attitude to the climate crisis? Some have spoken of a new Manhattan Project or an Apollo Programme, others still of a New Deal (see here). In Bill McKibben's New York Review article (linked here) about Thomas Friedman's new book (linked here), McKibben picks another analogy,
The controlling metaphor here is not the Manhattan Project or the Apollo moonshot; it is a Marshall Plan for carbons by which the global north makes up some of the difference between cheap coal and more expensive renewable energy for the global south ....
‘It smells so bad’: glut of wild salmon creates stink in Norway and Finland
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The irony of having too many salmon as global populations fall is not lost
on locals, who have seen the pristine Tana River littered with the rotting
cor...
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