🌎 Start Over (Again)

This week:

Got fired? Start over.

Plus: More young people are getting cancer, the rise of solar power, new YouTube misinformation rules, getting paid to bike to work, and more
Here's What You Can Do:

• ⚡️ If apocalyptic skies and hazardous air quality reports are making your climate anxiety a little more intense this week (I feel you), look into the Climate Psychiatry Alliance’s database to find a climate-aware psychiatrist near you (https://www.climatepsychiatry.org/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again).
• ⚡️ Help spread fire adaptation practices and give communities the tools they need (https://fireadaptednetwork.org/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again) to reduce their wildfire risk and increase their resilience by donating to Fire Adapted Communities.
• ⚡️ Campaign to speed up the transition away from coal in your community by joining a local team to retire coal plants (https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/join-a-local-team-to-end-coal-in-america-forever?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again).
• ⚡️ While you’re staying indoors to avoid the unhealthy air outside, purchase an air purifier (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again) to keep your indoor air quality up to par (got Scrooge McDuck cash? Donate a few to local schools).
• ⚡️ Learn more about the impacts of air pollution (https://www.epa.gov/criteria-air-pollutants?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again), and read these recommendations for proper building ventilation (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilation.html?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again).
News Roundup

Health & Medicine

• A new pill for lung cancer was found to cut the risk of death in half  (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/04/lung-cancer-pill-cuts-risk-of-death-by-half-says-thrilling-study?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again)during clinical trials, yay!
• Unfortunately, cancer is on the rise (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366565-cancer-mystery-as-cases-rise-among-younger-people-around-the-world/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again) for people under 50 worldwide, and we don’t really know why, god I really fucking hate cancer
• The chatbot “working” for an eating disorder helpline (https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again), instead of real humans capable of human empathy, was found to be encouraging unhealthy eating habits. Cool cool cool
• This week was one of the worst wildfire pollution events (https://heatmap.news/climate/wildfire-smoke-2023-worst-history?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again) in U.S. history

Climate

• Biofuels might not actually be the best climate solution (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/climate-change-biofuels-corn-ethanol.html?smid=tw-share&utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again)
• Reforesting the Amazon could drastically help slow global warming (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-environment-reforestation/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again), but there are a lot of roadblocks
• Would you bike to work (https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/earl-blumenauer-bicycles-interview-congress-ebikes.html?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again) if the feds paid you to?
• The clean energy transition (https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-dirty-job-that-few-want-mining-companies-struggle-to-hire-for-the-energy-transition-7d62d2ae?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again) is reliant on mines — but young people don’t want to work in them
• Solar is growing fast enough to meet global decarbonization goals — here’s a graph  (https://reneweconomy.com.au/graph-of-the-day-solar-is-creating-fastest-energy-change-in-history/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again)as a treat. You deserve it.

Food & Water

• Lack of water is limiting construction (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/climate/arizona-phoenix-permits-housing-water.html?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=start-over-again) in Arizona, which I don’t know, feels like a big deal
• As global food costs soar, a food deli...