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Charles C. Mann
American
Journalist
Born:
1955
About
Big
Change
People
Water
Will
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By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.
Charles C. Mann
Environmental
Day
Opportunity
Job
Greed
Increasingly
Earth
Earth Day
Tag
Price
Had
Environmental Issues
Became
Issues
Denounce
Left
Snow
Realized
Capitalist
Businesses
Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.
Charles C. Mann
Garbage
Only
Trucks
Also
Oil
Taxi
Coal
Even
Switching
Gas
Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.
Charles C. Mann
Shanghai
Hotels
Built
Were
Shining
Rice
Skyscrapers
Foundation
Streets
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.
Charles C. Mann
Economics
Vice Versa
Think
Other
Consideration
Way
About
Ecology
Absolute
Uncommon
Take
Occupy
Isolated
Nonsense
Versa
Intellectual
Vice
Even
Each
Two
A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
Charles C. Mann
Travel
World
Live
Tremendously
Air
Air Travel
Would
Would-Be
Limit
Different
Sudden
Now
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.
Charles C. Mann
State
Tool
Willing
Exchange
Between
Goods
Global
Parties
Trade
Private
Textbooks
Historically
Sellers
Which
Interests
Functions
Large-Scale
Served
Buyers
Two
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
Charles C. Mann
Stream
Doctors
Relay
Visit
Data
Hospital
Computers
Instead
Come
Remotely
Alter
Making
Continuous
Patients
Treatment
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
Charles C. Mann
Great
Complex
Rules
Those
Systems
Visitors
Inventing
Foreign
Explaining
Japanese
Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.
Charles C. Mann
Day
Great
Tomorrow
Will
Great Majority
Cases
Between
Particular
Come
Majority
Scientists
Been
Huge
Links
Cure
Huge Numbers
Diseases
Established
Patients
After
Translated
Help
Numbers
Treatments
The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
Charles C. Mann
Drive
Side
Road
Names
Most
Left
Literally
Japanese
Streets
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
Charles C. Mann
Matter
Bend
Backward
Cities
Over
Countryside
Another
Foreigners
Japanese
Help
Compared
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
Charles C. Mann
Detailed
Small
Tend
Schematic
Bewildering
Come
Japanese
Large
Maps
Two
So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.
Charles C. Mann
Corruption
Local
Has-Been
Neither
Sunk
City
Installation
New
Feet
Dug
Been
Endemic
Officially
Controls
Banned
Pollution
China
Meaning
Much
Measure
Ground
Many
Level
Two
Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.
Charles C. Mann
World
Water
Job
Forcing
Local
Corporate
Giants
Systems
City
Rather
Clean
Clean Up
Factories
Take
Outsource
Supply
Developing
Developing World
Over
Named
French
Around
Handful
Up
Than
Managing
Often
Polluted
After
Decided
Themselves
Planet
Company
Now
Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.
Charles C. Mann
Will
Nation
Every
Promise
Determined
Paris
Date
Emissions
Take
Reduce
Issues
Contribution
Intended
Which
Certain
Actions
Agreement
Amount
Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.
Charles C. Mann
Change
Half
Intertwined
Other
Presidency
President
President Trump
Obama
Exactly
Exactly What
About
Unclear
Since
Executive
Climate
Climate Change
Were
His
Years
Trump
Left
Eight
Orders
Place
Them
Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.
Charles C. Mann
Game
Water
Political
Strategy
Side
Presidents
Weaken
Economic
Winning
Remained
Economic Growth
Taking
Name
Reagan
Been
Years
Left
Office
Prediction
Bush
Mug
Regulations
Growth
Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes - Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.
Charles C. Mann
People
Water
State
Collaborative
States
Tribes
Promised
Indian
Some
Rivers
Instance
Protect
Western
Salmon
Native
Which
Agreements
Washington
Washington State
Treaties
Number
Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.
Charles C. Mann
Parents
Other
Adult
Like
Comfortable
Children
Want
Lives
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