Yes, we should be excited that leaders from 193 nations put their heads and hearts together in Paris. They made important progress in staving off the worsening damage threatened by climate change. As a former ambassador, I relish such cooperation.
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Send Congress to the Beach
Members of Congress have many invitations to go to nice places, a number of them in the Sunshine State. Someone needs to get them to Miami Beach, fast. Granted, putting that many people on planes would run up a serious carbon budget, but after a couple of hours on the ground (in waterproof boots), it would be a whole lot tougher for any of them to call climate change a “hoax.”
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Entertainment Companies Invest in Beating Climate Change
This is a mega-month for movies. One of the leading studios, Twentieth Century Fox (TCF), is hoping for success with “The Martian,” “The Peanuts Movie,” “Joy,” and others.
If you buy a ticket to a TCF film, at least some of your money will be going toward the company’s investment in beating climate change. Twentieth Century Fox is among 73 corporations that recently took the American Business Acts on Climate Pledge. Disney is another entertainment company that did so, earlier this year.