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(((Andrew Winston))) @AndrewWinston
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I am asked all the time about whether I'm 'optimistic' on climate and sustainability. It's hard to answer.

So, big thanks to @drvox for his answer to this on @PodSaveAmerica this week...

“What does it matter whether I’m optimistic?...
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@drvox @PodSaveAmerica "...I see a big, dangerous problem, I’m doing everything I can to explain to people and raise warnings and talk about how I solve it. Whether I have hope or not is not going to change whether I do that work. The work is the work."
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"...I have hope in the sense that I know there are thousands and thousands of people of goodwill out there in America who are also doing the work. So, that gives me hope. As to trying to predict some outcome in 2100...don’t waste the mental energy. Just do the work.”
Amen
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FACT: Multiple witnesses have testified that payments to mistresses were meant to win the election. Even by Rudy Guliani on Fox News.

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China's Africa strategy.

1. Economic Engagement
2. Military Interests
3. UN Peacekeeping
4. Political Party Training
5. Soft Power

USA's African strategy to be released in under a week.

My question : What is Africa's strategy towards the two?
africacenter.org/spotlight/chin…
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When China pledges funding , they do so while looking at Africa as a unit.
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African countries need to stop being too thirsty for funding without proper monitoring and accountability mechanisms.

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1. Thread:

Riots in France, 2nd rejection of carbon tax in Washington State, and u-turns in Germany and Ireland, all since Oct:

Are carbon taxes are dead, and we should look to plan B on climate?

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