When I hear people say that we should use the ocean for CO₂ removal (CDR) because it's so big, I wanna scream that it's already removing 10,200,000,000 tonnes more CO₂ than it did before the industrial revolution!

Climate genius ⁦Paul Hawken⁩ is back with his follow to ⁦Project Drawdown⁩. Same inventive thinking, peerless writing, and clean design. Didn’t think he could match his last effort but he does. “The agent who can head off the climate crisis is reading this sentence.”

Which organization has the best method for verifying carbon credits? This area is exploding in interest and entrants.

Noah is missing and so are the animals. In five years total loss has climbed from 60 to 70 percent.
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The Australian government ordered to pay damages to Torres Strait Islanders for failing to protect native lands from the effects of climate change. nature.com/articles/d4158…

CLIMATE DOES NOT EXIST climateforesight.eu/interview/paul…

Eric Roston is brilliant in his piece on why 'climate virginity' (net zero commitments by companies) is not possible. Only attainable on national or global levels. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Smartest person in the room on climate...by far. The header is not true. Not the easy way. And it excludes the biosphere. Inseparable to the task at hand. You can mow down the rainforest with renewably powered chainsaws with batteries. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

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85% reduction in Ocean-bound plastic by 2030? Very interesting to read a new study on how the Maldives government used #PlasticDrawdown tool from Common Seas to set ambitious plastic reduction targets — and that they want to work with 10 more countries!
commonseas.com/news/plastic-d…

#SOILROCKS ! For COP26, my collaborators and I contributed a blog about the need for Indigenous voices at the climate table. yalebooksblog.co.uk/2021/11/02/cop…

A new book by David Wengrow and the late David Graeber is a brilliant rejection of the fatalistic myths of human history — Possibly the most important to come out in years.
jacobinmag.com/2021/10/david-…

While single use plastic gets the headlines, the plastics industry is focused on making our houses out of plastic. In many ways, they already are. healthybuilding.net/blog

This is a great start. Good on Maine! The next step is for companies to pay for their methane releases, nitrogen runoff, dead zones, pollinator collapse, plastic pollution, and....and....
nytimes.com/2021/07/21/cli…

Am pretty sure this is not a solution to global warming :-)
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It is really hard to burn a vineyard. Spaced grapevines are not pyrophilic. Once you thrown in weirdly intense wind, the flames go sideways and vineyards char and burn. nytimes.com/2021/07/18/cli…

We have to put the right tree in the right place lest we amplify the impacts of past colonization of people and ecosystems. theconversation.com/the-long-shado…

Points of intervention that make urgent sense.
nature.com/articles/d4158…