💡 Warp News #238
🌎 The last ozone-depleting chemical is now decreasing. 💰 Funding to create an open energy protocol for energy sharing. 🐎 Wild horses return to the Kazakh steppes after 200 years.
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📉 Peak bad stuff
Despite working daily with fact-based optimism, it struck me when reading Hannah Ritchie's book how many bad things have peaked. Here are some quotes from the book:
"...the data also suggests that global deforestation has fallen from its peak in the 1980s."
"The world has already passed the peak of per capita emissions."
"The world may have already passed peak agricultural land."
Her book Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet is one hundred percent fact-based optimism. Highly recommended reading.
I am writing about the book and sharing more quotes: 📗 Wow, so many bad things have peaked – and more peaks are coming
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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📗 Wow, so many bad things have peaked – and more peaks are coming
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🌎 The last ozone-depleting chemical is now decreasing
The levels of the ozone-depleting chemical HCFC have been declining since 2021. The ozone layer is recovering, and the dangerous ozone hole is shrinking. The Montreal Protocol, adopted in 1987, has been crucial in reducing the use of ozone-depleting substances.
🐦CyberTracker helps indigenous communities document biodiversity
CyberTracker's software, developed in collaboration with indigenous communities, enables nearly anyone to collect complex biodiversity data. Even individuals who are illiterate can collect detailed data.
🧫 They win the $10 million Longitude Prize – combating superbugs
Swedish-Japenese Sysmex Astrego has won the Longitude Prize of $10 million for its rapid test of bacterial infections. The test reduces the time to determine the correct antibiotic from three days to less than 45 minutes, and can be used directly at the first doctor's visit.
💰 Funding to create an open energy protocol for energy sharing
The City of Lund is awarded $2 million, part of which will go to Project Energy Society and the development of an energy protocol. This will enable energy sharing and a low fixed cost for all the electricity you need.
🐎 Wild horses return to the Kazakh steppes after 200 years
The world's last wild horses, Przewalski's horses, have returned to their original home in Kazakhstan. The horses come from zoos in Berlin and Prague. The plan is to transport a total of 40 horses to central Kazakhstan over the next five years.
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