This week:
This week: Are car dealers the devil? And why?
Plus, the news:
• 🇨🇳 Can we build a green economy without China?
• 🦆 Bird flu, explained
• 🇷🇺 Russia quits the Black Sea grain deal
• 🤖 A.I. journalists
• And more!
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News Roundup
Health & Medicine
• It’s time to get serious about bird flu (https://www.vox.com/science/23793697/bird-flu-avian-influenza-explained-pandemic-potential-wildlife?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future)
• How long Covid is impacting (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/13/long-covid-global-south-lack-awareness?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future) the Global South
• Family homelessness is on the rise (https://www.dailynews.com/2023/07/14/the-spike-in-homelessness-in-us-cities-isnt-slowing-down/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future), and the Federation of Scientists is crowdsourcing for national policies to increase housing supply. Submit your idea here (https://www.slowboring.com/p/your-best-ideas-on-increasing-housing?publication_id=159185&post_id=135078604&isFreemail=true).
• Tornado damage to Pfizer plant will likely lead to long term shortages of medicine (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-pfizer-plant-north-carolina-damage-long-term-medicine-shortages/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future) great great
Climate
• Why the impacts of climate change (https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/why-are-climate-impacts-escalating?publication_id=1593097&post_id=134958425&isFreemail=true) are escalating so quickly
• A new registry (https://www.ctvc.co/carbon-dioxide-removal-isometric-science-platform/?ref=ctvc-newsletter&utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future)could make carbon removal more accessible, and more trustworthy, maybe?
• China’s role (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/opinion/america-china-clean-energy.html?partner=bloomberg&utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future) in America’s green economy
• What the warming planet means for the future of pathogens (https://grist.org/climate-connections-diseases-pathogens/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future) and diseases
Food & Water
• Vegan (ahem, plant-based) diets result in 75% less emissions (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/20/vegan-diet-cuts-environmental-damage-climate-heating-emissions-study?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future), water pollution, and land use 🤝 🫘👩🌾
• Manufacturing silicon chips requires a shit ton of water (https://www.wired.com/story/want-to-win-a-chip-war-youre-gonna-need-a-lot-of-water/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future)
• Russia has quit its grain deal (https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/7/19/23798701/black-sea-grain-deal-ukraine-russia-odesa-strikes?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future)with Ukraine — originally made to avert a global food crisis — and will target commercial ships in the Black Sea
• School lunches are now free (https://19thnews.org/2023/07/minnesota-students-free-school-lunches/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=haggling-over-the-future) in six states
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