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1. With just 34 days left in 2021, our countdown by week in the last 52 days of the year brings us to week 18, the first week of May.

I just searched for the environmental news of that week, which was all profoundly disturbing.

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#environment #news
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2. To give you an impression of the news in such an average week that makes me worried about our future, let's make a quick tour around the planet.

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theplanet.substack.com/p/how-to-effec…
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3. China now accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the world's developed nations combined.

China accounted for 27% of global emissions. The U.S., the second-biggest emitter, contributed 11%, and India 6.6%.

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theplanet.substack.com/p/how-to-effec…
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4. However, China's per capita emissions remain far less than those of the U.S.

And developed countries have pumped four times more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than China since 1750.

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theplanet.substack.com/p/how-to-effec…
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5. A study published in Week 18 found that the Brazilian Amazon, which you might call the lungs or our planet, released roughly 20 percent more carbon dioxide than it absorbed during the 2010s.

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theplanet.substack.com/p/how-to-effec…
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6. Another study warned that week that the world risks a situation where there is an "abrupt jump" in the pace of Antarctic ice loss around 2060. That would fuel sea level rise and place coastal cities in greater danger.

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theplanet.substack.com/p/how-to-effec…
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7. In Australia, rising sea levels combined with fishing practices and chemicals are among the possible causes for a dramatic decline in the number of endangered Australian sea lions. This was also in the news in Week 18.

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8. Arthur was likely the largest bear living in the EU. In early May, environmental groups accused a prince from Liechtenstein's royal family of shooting and killing Arthur in contravention of a ban on the trophy hunting of large carnivores. 

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9. I have now for 18 days followed the environmental and other news of the first 18 weeks of this year. When you scroll through so many news items, you start to wonder if we have all gone mad.

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10. We collectively destroy billions of years of evolution that have resulted in so many unique forms of life, all connected in delicate ecosystems.

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11. You can play a role in stopping this: vote for politicians that make preserving the environment, including our climate and biodiversity, an absolute priority.

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12. If you want to receive the newsletter in your email, and start your day with The Planet and your first coffee ☕️, you can sign up for the free version, or take a paid subscription (please do 🙏) via this link.

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22 Nov
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1. How to start a Substack newsletter

Looking back at an exciting journey.

“I knew about newsletters from the early days of digitalization, some 30 years ago, when we all started with our first email accounts; likely your Hotmail address.”

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2. Do you follow the daily journey of this year's events in the last 52 days of 2021? We are in Week 15, which started on March 12.

Today’s story begins at precisely the spot where I am sitting now. I remember reading my first Substack newsletter.

🧵theplanet.substack.com/p/how-to-start…
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3. Since hotmail, and Internet cafés, we moved on, got our Facebook accounts, then other social media, and the joy of having that virtual world in your smartphone apps.

But then, quite recently, there was suddenly the revival of the newsletter.

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20 Nov
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1. The world's oldest known wild bird is a Laysan Albatros.

She is called Wisdom, because of her age and surviving many current threads like fish-lines, climate change, and plastic pollution. 

This is her. Isn’t she beautiful?

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2. While I work on this thread (with more albatrosses videos), you could subscribe for The Planet newsletter.

You will like it if you are interested in #nature and #wildlife.

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3. Wisdom was probably born around 1951. Five years later, in 1956, the young albatross, got a red ankle band with the number Z333.

By now, that albatross, Wisdom, has become famous as the world's oldest known wild bird. 

#birds #nature #wildlife
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2 Nov
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1. For all readers who don't warm to the idea of future palm-fringed beaches in the Arctic, I wrote an explainer about COP26, climate change, and why we need to do more.

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2/12. Current policies set us on track to about 2.7°C or 2.9°C of warming by the end of this century, a disastrous cause to a world where you don't want your children to live.

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#COP26Glasgow #news #environment

theplanet.substack.com/p/cop26-a-meet…
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3/12. This graph from Our World in Data shows the global average temperature relative to the average of the period between 1961 and 1990.

These changes are almost all caused by human behavior, especially the burning of fossil fuels and land (ab)use.

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#ClimateAction
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31 Oct
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1. Starting COP26 on Halloween, a festival for the dead, doesn't give much hope.

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🧵 The start of a thread on #history, #Halloween, #leadership, #nature, #climate, and #COP26 Image
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2. Traditions can alienate you if you don't feel part of it. So in my efforts to blend in with the Canadians, I searched the internet to explain #Halloween and found that we have to go back into history as I so often do in The Planet newsletter.

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theplanet.substack.com/p/starting-cop…
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3. There was not much of #Halloween celebration in colonial New England, where rigid Protestant beliefs prevented frivolously celebrating, especially of traditions with some doubtful pre-Christian fingerprints all over it.

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23 Oct
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1. I’m fascinated by the beauty of nature and enjoy learning more every day. Look for instance at these mushrooms realising millions of microscopic spores to propagate.

🧵 A thread about the beauty of planet earth, our only home.

#nature #science
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2. That’s right, it’s our only home. That means we have to be extra careful, we don’t have a spare.

When it heats up, or loses it’s complex ecosystems, we will all be in trouble.

NASA took this photo of the dark side of the moon from 1 million miles away.

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#climate
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3. If you care about the beauty of nature and follow issues like climate change, read The Planet.

Subscribe, and start your day with this newsletter, it really needs your support. 🙏

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21 Oct
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1. Brazil and Argentina lobby against evidence in the draft scientific UN/IPCC report on the need to reduce meat consumption to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

@BBCNews reports this, based on leaked documents obtained by @UE (follow them).

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#vegetarian #vegan #COP26
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2. The leaked documents also reveal how Australia pushed back against the need to phase out coal power plants to tackle climate change.

That is like removing references to quit smoking in a scientific report on preventing lung cancer.

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#Australia #IPCC #climate #COP26 #UN
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3. Australia is not alone: it is also revealed how OPEC and Saudi Arabia are lobbying the UN's climate change experts to delete the finding that the world needs to rapidly phase out fossil fuels.

And #COP26 will start in only ten days...

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#ClimateCrisis #environment #news
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