<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://eos.org/articles/trees-that-live-fast-die-young-and-mess-with-climate-models" class="">Trees That Live Fast, Die Young, and Mess with Climate ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://eos.org/articles/trees-that-live-fast-die-young-and-mess-with-climate-models" class="">https://eos.org<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › News Articles</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Jan 27, 2021 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This process, which scientists call CO2 fertilization, can accelerate </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""><b class="">tree growth</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, with more carbon available in the atmosphere (especially under ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">But </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">climate change might be making them live <b class="">fast</b> and <b class="">die young</b>.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> A new international study found that <b class="">trees</b> are <b class="">growing faster</b> and <b class="">dying</b> off earlier, which sets back their capacity to store carbon emissions, according to a new study published last week in Nature Communications.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 16, 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trees-are-growing-fast-and-dying-young-due-climate-change-180975819/#:~:text=But%20climate%20change%20might%20be,last%20week%20in%20Nature%20Communications." class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trees-are-growing-fast-and-dying-young-due-climate-change-180975819/#:~:text=But%20climate%20change%20might%20be,last%20week%20in%20Nature%20Communications." class="">Trees Are Growing Fast and Dying Young Due to Climate ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trees-are-growing-fast-and-dying-young-due-climate-change-180975819/#:~:text=But%20climate%20change%20might%20be,last%20week%20in%20Nature%20Communications." class="">https://www.smithsonianmag.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › smart-news › trees-are...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/faster-tree-growth-younger-death" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/faster-tree-growth-younger-death" class="">The faster trees grow, the younger they die | Science News for Students…</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/faster-tree-growth-younger-death" class="">https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › article › faste...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Oct 20, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">That makes </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> an important part of the fight against climate change. But when forest </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees grow faster</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, they </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">die</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> sooner, a new study finds. That quickens their release of carbon back into the air — which is disappointing news for global warming.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.zmescience.com/science/trees-grow-fast-die-young-043242/" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.zmescience.com/science/trees-grow-fast-die-young-043242/" class="">Trees that live fast die young and this is bad news for the ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.zmescience.com/science/trees-grow-fast-die-young-043242/" class="">https://www.zmescience.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › Environment › Climate</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 9, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">There's a universal trade-off between early </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">growth</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> and lifespan in </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, according to a new study, which showed </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">faster growth</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> has a direct and ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://theconversation.com/across-the-world-trees-are-growing-faster-dying-younger-and-will-soon-store-less-carbon-145785" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://theconversation.com/across-the-world-trees-are-growing-faster-dying-younger-and-will-soon-store-less-carbon-145785" class="">Across the world, trees are growing faster, dying younger ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://theconversation.com/across-the-world-trees-are-growing-faster-dying-younger-and-will-soon-store-less-carbon-145785" class="">https://theconversation.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › across-the-world-trees-are...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 8, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">As the world warms and the atmosphere becomes increasingly fertilised with carbon dioxide, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> are </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">growing</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> ever </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">faster</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">. But they're also ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200908113331.htm" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200908113331.htm" class="">Trees living fast die young -- ScienceDaily</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200908113331.htm" class="">https://www.sciencedaily.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › releases › 2020/09</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 8, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> living </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">fast die young</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> ... A global analysis reveals for the first time that across almost all </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">tree</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> species, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">fast growing trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> have <b class="">shorter lifespans.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253908-rising-co2-levels-mean-trees-increasingly-live-fast-and-die-young/" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253908-rising-co2-levels-mean-trees-increasingly-live-fast-and-die-young/" class="">Rising CO2 levels mean trees increasingly live fast and die ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253908-rising-co2-levels-mean-trees-increasingly-live-fast-and-die-young/" class="">https://www.newscientist.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › article › 2253908-rising...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 8, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> that </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">grow faster die younger</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, a study of </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">tree</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> rings has confirmed. Many </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> worldwide are already </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">dying</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> more </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">quickly</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> as a result of rising carbon dioxide levels and temperatures. This means that existing forests will store less carbon than we thought, worsening climate change.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/european-forests-could-live-fast-and-die-young-in-a-warming-climate" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/european-forests-could-live-fast-and-die-young-in-a-warming-climate" class="">European forests could 'live fast and die young' in a warming ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/european-forests-could-live-fast-and-die-young-in-a-warming-climate" class="">https://www.carbonbrief.org<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › european-forests-could-li...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">May 15, 2019 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The first hypothesis – the “wait” hypothesis – is that </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> that </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">grow faster</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> reach their maximum size earlier, then stop </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">growing</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> and eventually </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">die</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/shorter-lifespan-of-faster-growing-trees-will-add-to-climate-crisis-study-finds" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/shorter-lifespan-of-faster-growing-trees-will-add-to-climate-crisis-study-finds" class="">Shorter lifespan of faster-growing trees will add to climate ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/shorter-lifespan-of-faster-growing-trees-will-add-to-climate-crisis-study-finds" class="">https://www.theguardian.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › environment › sep › sh...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 8, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Live </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">fast</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">die young</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> is a truism often applied to rock stars but could just as easily describe </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, according to new research. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> that </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">grow</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Book review : Under the Sky We Make. Kimberly Nicholas, PhD</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Excerpt : </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Individual responsibility has become something of a flashpoint in the climate discourse. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">On the one hand, </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">oil companies <a href="https://grist.org/energy/footprint-fantasy/" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(60, 56, 48);" class="">love to harp on about</span></a> personal carbon footprints as a way of distracting from their much larger contributions to the climate crisis, both through the fossil fuel products they make and their longstanding, ongoing efforts to delay climate action and misinform the public. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">At the same time</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, prominent journalists and scientists have waved off individual climate actions as a distraction from the systemic changes that are needed to solve the crisis — changes like overhauling our electricity and transit systems through governmental investments in clean energy, better regulation, and carbon pricing. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">They’re joined by</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> a growing chorus of climate justice advocates who rightly point out that asking poor people to make difficult dietary shifts or give up the car they need to get to work is completely unfair.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">That’s not what Nicholas is doing. Her message isn’t aimed at folks struggling to make ends meet, but at people making a middle-class income or higher who live in a wealthy country like the United States, Germany, or France. Far from a distraction, Nicholas argues that the </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">climate impact of the carbon elite is something we need to focus on — individually<b class=""> and </b>systematically.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> She points out that globally, more than two-thirds of climate pollution can be <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es803496a" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(60, 56, 48);" class="">attributed to household consumption</span></a>, and that the richest 10 percent of the world population — those making <a href="https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/34432/EGR20ch6.pdf?sequence=3" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(60, 56, 48);" class="">more than $38,000 a year</span></a> — is responsible for about half of those emissions. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://grist.org/culture/cutting-your-carbon-footprint-matters-a-lot-if-youre-rich/" class="">https://grist.org/culture/cutting-your-carbon-footprint-matters-a-lot-if-youre-rich/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Nature, </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Vol 461:10 September 2009 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">BOOKS & ARTS </span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Call for a climate culture shift</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A new book describes the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">rapid reshaping of human priorities needed to save the planet from global warming</span>. Some of that change is already under way at the community level, explains <b class="">Robert Costanza</b>. </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #ff0000" class=""><b class="">Down to the Wire : Confronting Climate Collapse<br class="">
</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">by David W. Orr<br class="">
Oxford University Press: 2009. 288 pp. $19.95</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“A worldwide movement rejects the idea that we are fated to end the human experiment with a bang or a whimper.” </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">1st 2 paragraphs : </b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><img alt="page1image3693104.png" apple-inline="yes" id="5432121B-E5FE-4D3C-8546-FDF91E2BF523" width="280" height="0.5" src="cid:639A54D3-0149-4D38-80BF-07D8DEC56154@PK5001Z" class=""> </span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In the fight against climate change, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">humans will need to do </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">more</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> than switch to energy-efficient light bulbs and buy ‘green’ goods. As environmental scientist David Orr points out in <i class="">Down to the Wire</i>, what is needed is a radical shift in culture that alters our priorities. The question is whether that task, which seems impossible, can be made to happen. Orr’s book, along with recent research and social initiatives, give hope that it can. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">There is a growing scientific consensus that humanity is rapidly approaching a global climate catastrophe. Although we have increasing knowledge of the dangers and costs ahead, there is little time to avert a disaster. Orr acknowledges these dire circumstances, but does not wallow in despair or defeatism. His book is <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">a clear-sighted view of what we need to change now. </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div></body></html>