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Charles C. Mann
American Journalist
Born: 1955
About Big Change People Water Will
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
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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