Textbooks Are Falling Behind on Climate Change
A new study found that most biology textbooks devote fewer sentences to climate change than they did before 2010.
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Links 1/10/2023
Chasing Big European Corporate Miscreants Through New York Courts: An Update Via a Barclays Filing
A filing against Barclays presents quite the rap sheet, and also illustrates why it takes legal bloodymindeness to take on these miscreants.
Read more...Washington Has Trouble Refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve After 220 Million Barrel Draw
Oopsie! Mr. Market is not cooperating with the Biden plan to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at prices better than $70 a barrel
Read more...50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
Allende was early to warn of multinational threats to product safety, labor regulations, and other protections. Sadly corporate interests won.
Read more...Sweden Won’t Meet Türkiye Demands to Win Its Vote on NATO Membership
Sweden reneged on its Türkiye NATO vote deal. This should be solvable except the West wants to punish Türkiye and Türkiye isn’t up for that.
Read more...Links 1/7/2023
Nepo Babies and the Myth of the Meritocracy
Meritocracy has become an empty idea in America. That’s a problem.
Read more...The Steep Cost of Bio-Based Plastic
Growing crops to make plastic may theoretically reduce reliance on fossil fuels, but at an enormous environmental cost.
Read more...Long COVID Stemmed from Mild Cases of COVID-19 in Most People
Bit by bit, getting a clearer picture of long Covid.
Read more...Zelensky’s Bloody War Against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
A bloody attack on a Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest, close to the Orthodox Christmas, in a church….and sanctioned by the government.
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Is Baack! The Latest Filing, re the Calcaterra Report Coverup
For those who like legal jousting and elegant drafting, the Kentucky Retirement Systems battle is back, now focused on Regina Calcaterra.
Read more...‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources
Law professor Mary Wood breaks describes how the public trust can protect rights to clean air, water, and land.
Read more...Ukraine and Russia: Waiting for the Next Phase?
Why Ukraine may be under even more pressure than Russia to Do Something when the ground finally freezes in Ukraine.
Read more...‘It’s Not Either/Or’ — Population and Consumption in the Climate Solutions Debate
Looking at the oft superficially discussed population and consumption levers in the climate change debate.
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