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At Climate Week 2023, It's Optimism Versus Cataclysm

BY JEFF YOUNG ON 9/18/23 AT 12:13 PM EDT

 

    We have just lived through Earth's hottest summer on record, with heat waves baking large parts of our planet. Scientists have also confirmed that our oceans reached the highest recorded surface temperatures this summer, bleaching corals and super-charging storms. Millions of us choked on smoke from unprecedented wildfires, and we watched, horrified, as fire ravaged a Hawaiian Eden.

    It was the sort of summer that could lead those concerned about climate change to a sense of despair. Many factors affect floods, fires and extreme weather, but the science is clear on the ways climate change contributes to them all, and this summer provided ample evidence of the risks we face.

    And yet, as climate scientists, advocates, business leaders and elected officials arrived in New York for the annual gathering called Climate Week, the overwhelming mood is one of—dare we say it—optimism.

    "We have to believe that we can overcome, right? And that optimism drives action," Angela Barranco told Newsweek. Barranco is the North America executive director for Climate Group, the international nonprofit that organizes Climate Week, which is now in its 15th year.

    In that time, Barranco said, Climate Week has grown from a small side-event coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly to a global nexus for policymakers, academics and corporate leaders attending some 400 sessions around New York City, all organized under the theme "We can. We will."

    Climate Week's growth and positive tone match changes in the economics of climate action over the past decade and a half. Sustainability is no longer just a department title within a business, it is creating entirely new businesses."It's the 'green economy' becoming the economy," Barranco said.

    That green growth was accelerated by the Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden's signature legisla tive achievement on clean energy and climate, which stimulated about $110 billion in clean tech manufacturing investments in just its first year. That has spurred other countries to keep pace to remain competitive in thriving sectors.

    All of that, however, is not yet enough to meet the level of reductions in CO₂ emissions that scientists say we need to hit in order to avoid the most dangerous climate change. Many of this year's Climate Week events focus on how to scale up and accelerate the deployment of clean energy and transportation, ways to decarbonize heavy industries like cement and steel, and how to direct financing for those efforts.

    "We have the technologies, we're starting to build the political will," Barranco said. "Really, what we need to do is just move a lot faster."

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    Jakarta: Living with asthma in the world's most polluted city

 

Multiple doctors have advised Farah Nurfirman to leave her hometown Jakarta for her health's sake.

The 22-year-old asthmatic often wears a mask and carries an inhaler, but the air quality in the city is not helping.

The Indonesian capital, which has long wrestled with air pollution, was ranked the most polluted city on global charts nearly every day last week.

President Joko Widodo on Monday even mandated that all civil servants work from home amid worsening air quality.

Last week, Jakarta saw its airborne concentration of the pollution particles known as PM2.5 outpace other heavily polluted cities such as Riyadh, Doha and Lahore, according to live data from Swiss air quality technology company IQAir. The company ranks pollution in major cities in real time every day.

Jakarta has also been consistently ranked among the 10 most polluted cities globally since May. The capital city and its surrounding region are home to about 30 million people.

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Climate change is a pressing global issue that requires immediate action. Governments, organizations, and individuals must work together to mitigate its effects. The Paris Agreement, signed by numerous countries, is one such effort to combat climate change.

 

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If I had the blueprint or the brain

I would build an aeroplane

With fashion wings of balsa wood and glue

And I would fly to you

I'd carve a prop from old recycled would haves

All these relentless could have

These pointless might have beens

Oh, the storms that I would gladly battle through

So I could fly to you

 

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A trail of darkness swept across the Western Hemisphere on Saturday, starting at the Oregon coast and then venturing to the Southwest region as it cut through Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas and other states. It was an annular solar eclipse that millions of people across the United States and Latin American countries experienced as a ring of fire in their local skies.

The path of annularity, or the path where the moon was most centered over the sun, was about 130 miles wide. People traveled from great distances to reach this shadowy strip, soaking up the four to five minutes of the darkest phase for those who got closer to its center.

“You see a picture, and it just doesn’t do it justice,” said Matthew Neal, who drove to Richfield, Utah, from San Diego with his wife, Jennifer Neal, to chase the eclipse.

Millions more people experienced a partial solar eclipse, with considerable dimming of the sun occurring in major cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, Houston, Mexico City and Bogotá, even though they were far outside the path of annularity in some cases.

Disponível em: https://www.nytimes. com/2023/10/14/homepage/solar-eclipse photos.html. Acesso em: 13 out 2023

 

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