Stephan: Do you like going to the beach? Taking your kids to play in the ocean? Like surfing? Better enjoy it now because, as this report describes, half the beaches of the world are scheduled to disappear.
Unmitigated climate change could result in the “near extinction” of 50 percent of the globe’s sandy beaches by the year 2100, according to a new study. Credit: xavierarnau / Getty
Half of the world’s beaches could disappear by the end of this century as a result of climate change-induced coastal erosion and rising seas, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
As global temperatures continue to rise, driven by emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, melting ice will raise sea levels and extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent and intensify, battering vulnerable coastlines around the world, according to the researchers at the European Union’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. If these processes are left unchecked, it could result in the “near extinction” of 50 percent of the globe’s sandy beaches by the year 2100, they said.
The scientists used satellite images to measure how coastlines have evolved over the past 30 years. They then used various projections of sea level rise to […]
Stephan: Here is some excellent news about the transition out of the carbon era, and an example of the power of individuals acting with collective intention to accomplish something no matter what their governments are doing.
EVs are taking over the world, and if you need proof of this, just look at the sales numbers.
Kevin Rooke recently shared a video on YouTube that does just that. Among the things talked about are trends in global EV sales, the sales mix of fully electric vehicles versus plug-in hybrids, as well as S-curves and global EV adoption.
Since 2015, EV sales have been growing at a rate around 41% annually. “An impressive rate and it’s been happening on almost every continent around the world, but the trend has been more pronounced in Asia,” says Rooke in his video. He breaks down the growth by region.
Asia: 55% annual growth
Americas: 32% annual growth
Europe: 26% annual growth
And this totals up to 41% annual growth for the entire world. Rooke also shares that China is selling 25 million vehicles every year, more than the US and Canada are selling combined. With one of the larger EV share percentages, that is starting to show as truly large numbers. “China’s 5% sales of EVs represent more sales than Ford’s F-Series.” Data from 2018 shows that Ford sold 909,330 F-Series vehicles while China sold 1,103,923 EVs in 2018.
Another thing that Rooke points out is that in 2014 […]
Anna Berrill, Nell Card, Jim Cable, Leah Harper, Tamsin Blanchard, Sali Hughes, Donna Ferguson, - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Everybody who reads me knows about the power of the wellbeing fostering Quotidian Choice, which I described in The 8 Laws of Change and talk about regularly on SR. Here is how you can make that part of your life day-to-day.
Clean up your kitchen
Love your leftovers
Look at what basics you’re binning. “Chefs talk about what to do with carrot tops or whey from cheese, but that’s not where we need to make changes,” says Feast food writer Anna Jones. “It’s the milk poured down the sink and stale bread – the items we don’t put as much value on.” Jones tears up bread to freeze for instant croutons, or whizzes it into breadcrumbs for adding to croustades, pastas and salads. If oats have already been made into porridge, follow Claire Thomson, chef and author of The Art Of The Larder (Quadrille, £25), and substitute for some of the flour and water in bread dough.
Treat “food waste” as ingredients, says Ollie Hunter, chef and author of 30 Easy Ways To Join The Food Revolution (Pavilion, £14.99). “It’s easy to turn it into something […]
Stephan: If you are a regular SR reader then you know that since the technology began I have been following and publishing articles on CRISPR. Why all the attention from SR, since you see very little about CRISPR in the daily mainstream media? Because I see it as a fundamental medical breakthrough that is going to reconfigure 21st century medicine, particularly its role in creating Homo Superior. Here is the latest.
Dr. Jason Comander, inherited retinal disorder specialist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston points to a model of an eye during an interview on Jan. 8, 2020. Credit: Rodrique Ngowi / AP
Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone’s body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases.
A patient recently had it done at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland for an inherited form of blindness, the companies that make the treatment announced Wednesday. They would not give details on the patient or when the surgery occurred.
It may take up to a month to see if it worked to restore vision. If the first few attempts seem safe, doctors plan to test it on 18 children and adults.
“We literally have the potential to take people who are essentially blind and make them see,” said Charles […]
STEVE CRABTREE AND SOFIA KLUCH, - The Gallup Organization
Stephan: One of the biggest problems I think America faces is that we almost never tell ourselves the truth about ourselves about anything. It is always: we're the best; we're the leaders; we're paving the way; we're the envy of the world. In fact we are no longer any of those things.
Here's a real fact: In the U.S. "40% of single mothers struggled to afford food; 27% could not afford shelter." Here's another: the "U.S. has highest maternal death rate among developed countries. U.S. women are more likely to die during childbirth than women in any other developed country, leading the U.S. to be ranked 33rd among 179 countries on the health and well-being of women and children."
The truth is if you are a pregnant woman, or a single mother, you face challenges, including just surviving the birth of your child, that are not there for women in the rest of the developed world.
Do you hear any politicians citing these figures and proposing specific programs? No? Me neither. That's another problem.
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Almost half of single mothers worldwide (44%) struggled to afford food in the past year
In the U.S., 40% of single mothers struggled to afford food; 27% could not afford shelter (emphasis added)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Worldwide, Gallup finds that single mothers are more likely than the rest of the population to be struggling to put food on their table and shelter over their head. For example, across 148 countries, 44% of single women aged 18 to 60 with children younger than 15 in their household — a proxy for single mothers — say they have had trouble affording food for their family in the past year, compared with 28% of other adults.
But the disparities between these single women and the rest of the population are even larger in some countries, including the U.S. Single mothers in the U.S. are significantly more likely than other Americans to say there have been times in the past 12 months when they did not have enough money for food (40% vs. 17%, respectively) or adequate shelter (27% vs. 14%).
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