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		<title>Our To Do List For The Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Base Economics, Finance and Governance on Reality says UN Welcome to the latest issue of Need to Know: Science &#38; Insight, a new form of personal journalism that looks at what we Need-to-Know at this time of pandemic, existential crisis of climate change and unraveling of nature’s life supports. Making Peace With Nature is a new United &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2021/03/08/our-to-do-list-for-the-decade/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Our To Do List For The&#160;Decade</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Perfect Storm of Misinformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to improve your BS detector about Texas Blackout lies and other distortions We’re in the middle of a storm of&#160;lies, distortions and misinformation. It’s going to get worse when it comes to vaccines, climate change, alternative energy, and other solutions to bring about a transition to a sustainable, zero-carbon future.&#160; I’ve been navigating through &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2021/03/01/the-perfect-storm-of-misinformation/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Perfect Storm of&#160;Misinformation</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Time to retire the old smog-belcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Your Next Vehicle is Likely to be Electric This week in Stephen Leahy&#8217;s Need to Know: Science and Insight I’m happy to report that&#160;EVs are doing fine&#160;in most places. Last year car sales were down 20% in 2020 due to Covid-19, but&#160;EV sales jumped 43%.&#160; The reason? EVs are better technology. They have better &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2021/02/16/time-to-retire-the-old-smog-belcher/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Time to retire the old&#160;smog-belcher</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>President Biden Refuses to Make our Climate Crisis Worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cancels Canadian Tar Sands Pipeline Keystone XL Welcome to the web version of Need to Know: Science &#38; Insight, a new form of personal journalism. Free subscription. Hello again, I hope you and yours are well. There’s been considerable press about the cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline but much of it lacks context and &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2021/01/22/president-biden-refuses-to-make-our-climate-crisis-worse/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">President Biden Refuses to Make our Climate Crisis&#160;Worse</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pandemic Hacks: Feel Better, Safer and more in Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’re all facing a very tough two or three months right now with the worsening pandemic, economic uncertainty, political messes, winter weather, etc. The COVID-19 vaccines are a light at the end of the tunnel but we’re still deep inside a pretty dark tunnel. Right now it looks like a damn steep climb to get &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2021/01/08/pandemic-hacks-feel-better-safer-and-more-in-control/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Pandemic Hacks: Feel Better, Safer and more in&#160;Control</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Europe’s Game-Changing Climate Action Commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 6% Solution to the Climate Crisis In this issue of&#160;Need to Know&#160; I spent Saturday at the United Nation’s Climate Ambition Summit 2020. It was a virtual event to mark the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change. I’m happy to report there was a game-changing announcement. When the Paris Climate Agreement &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2020/12/16/europes-game-changing-climate-action-commitment/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Europe’s Game-Changing Climate Action&#160;Commitment</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stay In Your Bubble — and Other Corona Safety Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to wait for the vaccine without going crazy In this issue of Need to Know is about how to stay safe over the next few months based on the latest science and medical advice to avoid encountering the coronavirus. Two very good friends recently asked to meet for lunch while they were in town. These &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2020/11/20/stay-in-your-bubble-and-other-corona-safety-tips/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Stay In Your Bubble — and Other Corona Safety&#160;Tips</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Planetary Emergency vs Business as Usual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some guiding principles for the world we want This chart shows where economic stimulus money went in a few select countries. (Green is for low carbon, red is for high carbon fossil fuels; yellow is for social and health care.) We’re in a state of planetary emergency. And yet hardly anyone seems to know or &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2020/10/23/planetary-emergency-vs-business-as-usual/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Planetary Emergency vs Business as&#160;Usual</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Living Well Is Living Harmoniously With Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Learning Indigenous values and ways of being In this issue of Need to Know: Science &#38; Insight I look at how Indigenous values and ways of living with nature can help guide us out of the mess we’ve created. But first trip to a remarkable Indigenous community in Panama. Read issue here.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Climate Reality and the Politically Impossible</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This close to meeting the 1.5C climate target In the immortal words of Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard: “Things Are Only Impossible Until They&#8217;re Not&#8220;. In this issue of Need to Know: Science and Insight I look at how politically realistic” and “political will” maybe finally coming to together to give hope for a 1.5C &#8230; <a href="https://stephenleahy.net/2020/10/14/climate-reality-and-the-politically-impossible/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Climate Reality and the Politically&#160;Impossible</span></a>]]></description>
		
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