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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
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
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
You
Conversation
Crisp
Bitter
Must
Scarcely
Like
Fresh
Sparkling
Notice
Lettuce
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Charles Dudley Warner
Man
Woman
Nothing
Beaten
Like
Chess
Getting
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner
Selfish
People
Opportunity
Would
Would-Be
Had
Generous
Majority
Am
Motives
Convinced
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Charles Dudley Warner
City
Generally
Land
Taxes
Thing
Raised
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
Charles Dudley Warner
Best
Good
Needs
Experience
World
Practice
No Experience
Some
Boy
Requires
Things
Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.
Charles Duhigg
Money
Long
Few
Appropriate
Considered
Those
Daredevil
Borrowed
Cash
Bets
Only
Risky
Outstanding
Safe
Least
Were
Dull
Hand
Lots
Stock
Debts
Stocks
Might
Companies
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.
Charles Duhigg
Woman
Suffering
Charity
Mother
Nuns
Bengali
Indian
Disappeared
Remote
Mission
Missionaries
She
Tumor
Placed
Village
Founded
Monica
Image
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
Charles Duhigg
Day
People
Water
Long
Few
Meal
All Day
Drink
Outside
Bottled
Bottled Water
Beverage
Unthinkingly
Springs
Sip
Office
Decades
Then
Workers
Production
Companies
Many
Now
Started
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
Charles Duhigg
Life
Entire
Entire Life
Habits
Throughout
Malleable
Your
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
Charles Duhigg
You
Down
Other
Late
Rules
Punishment
Out
Promising
Some
Small
Tactics
Throughout
Write
Never
Were
Confessions
Quotations
Again
China
Explaining
Used
Companies
Chairman
Why
Violate
Copy
When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
Charles Duhigg
People
Values
Group
Our
Marketers
Correspond
Betrayal
Something
Habits
Feels
Like
Does
Influence
Company
Core
Core Values
There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Air
Systems
Would
Prevent
Emission
Discharge
Making
Any
Pollution
Zero
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'
Charles Duhigg
Generation
Marketers
Corporations
Phrase
Adolescence
Vast
Consultants
Consumers
Between
Advertising
Always
Began
Difference
Happily
Explaining
Exploded
Eager
Coin
Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.
Charles Duhigg
Opportunities
Opportunity
Mind
Become
Group
Teenagers
Definition
Out
Running
Someone
New
Because
Always
Ultimately
Elderly
Eventually
Reinvention
Belonging
At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
Charles Duhigg
You
Behavior
Changing
Weakness
Some
Point
Going
Really
Moment
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
Charles Duhigg
You
Focus
More
Habit
Becomes
You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.
Charles Duhigg
You
Tomorrow
Say
Easy
Habit
New
Brand
Brand New
Expect
Effortless
Want
Suddenly
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