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'Climate Emergency' (assets.weforum.org)

What Germans would give up 'to fight climate change' (assets.weforum.org)

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/europe-flying-climate-change-covid-19-global-warming-emissions-sustainability/ Fighting climate crisis made harder by Covid-19 inequality, says WEF

Environmental issues are biggest danger in coming years, says international organisation (theguardian.com)

"Defense forces, which typically account for at least 50 percent of governments’ carbon emissions, could help prevent climate change (webcache.googleusercontent.com)—and the many risks it implies—by taking dramatic action to decarbonize. Obstacles to change include the primacy of having mission-critical capability and long equipment life cycles (which means fossil-fuel-powered equipment in use now, or coming into service shortly, will still be fielded in 2050). But defense forces can begin setting priorities for decarbonization by categorizing their emissions as those for which they are directly responsible and those resulting from the supply chain, and by how much emissions reductions would impact mission-critical initiatives (exhibit)."

['Climate Emergency'](https://assets.weforum.org/editor/sbj0wlPTlFsUPXlKEkotvJ_lBqOd_wVgrxtVdBy2MhQ.jpg) [What Germans would give up 'to fight climate change'](https://assets.weforum.org/editor/responsive_large_webp_LsbBy8nW2uY1UsJ-x6zO73u_G4rwdn91eBmBpI76dq0.webp) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/europe-flying-climate-change-covid-19-global-warming-emissions-sustainability/ Fighting climate crisis made harder by Covid-19 inequality, says WEF [Environmental issues are biggest danger in coming years, says international organisation](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/19/climate-crisis-covid-19-inequality-wef) ["Defense forces, which typically account for at least 50 percent of governments’ carbon emissions, could help prevent climate change](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NNCEzD_is5YJ:https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk/our-insights/covid-19-implications-for-business+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)—and the many risks it implies—by taking dramatic action to decarbonize. Obstacles to change include the primacy of having mission-critical capability and long equipment life cycles (which means fossil-fuel-powered equipment in use now, or coming into service shortly, will still be fielded in 2050). But defense forces can begin setting priorities for decarbonization by categorizing their emissions as those for which they are directly responsible and those resulting from the supply chain, and by how much emissions reductions would impact mission-critical initiatives (exhibit)."

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I always grit my teeth when I walk down the streets of NYC and see 17 months of unnecessary masks and gloves and hand sanitizer bottles in addition to the other filth these animals leave around.