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This is how the countries ofthe world can nominally pledge to rapidlydecarbonize while also, according to theU.N., planning to expand fossil-fuel productionthrough 2040; and how Saudi Arabia,for example, can promise net-zero carbonby 2060 while planning to expand fossil-fueluse by as much as 45 percent by 2030.On top of which, the country doesn't evenhave to count all the emissions it's exporting,primarily in the form of oil, which is quite anaccounting trick for a petro-state. A trillion tons of carbon hang in the air, put there by the world's rich--an existential threat to its poor. "Climate reparationsor climate colonialism." The climate crisis is the result ofthat history, as is the wealth of nations. [Extracted from the article]

Beyond hip-hop and beyond culture,though, there are plenty of people who, ifthe/ were writing a book like this now,would focus on the War on Drugs andmass incarceration, welfare reform andthe Clinton crime bill, and Rodney Kingand the L.A. riots. "Theboilerplate portrait of the American nineties makes the whole era looklike a low-risk grunge cartoon", Klosterman writes in his introduction." The CULTURE PAGES IN HIS NEW COLLECTION, The Nineties: A Book, the criticChuck Klosterman works ground-up from culture to build a sortof mood-board history of a decade that floats a little out of focusin the national memory: close enough to feel familiar, far enough to feelweird. [Extracted from the article]

THE WAR ON CLIMATE DENIAL HAS BEEN WON. Already, a future withoutprofound climate suffering has been almost certainly foreclosedby decades of inaction, which means the burden of managingthose impacts equitably will be handed down, generationto generation, into an indefinite and contested climate future. Biden's climate plan now faces the challenge of a filibuster andthe mood of Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, which meansAmerican climate action over the next four years is probably morelikely to be delivered piecemeal--through appropriations andstimulus, executive action, and regulation--than through a landmarkGreen New Deal--style piece of legislation. The first is the fact that the age of climate denial is over thanks toextreme weather and the march of science and the historic labor ofactivists--climate strikers, Sunrise, Extinction Rebellion--whosesuccess in raising alarm may have been so sudden that they broughtan end to the age of climate Jeremiahs as well. [Extracted from the article]

Confronting thegravest injustice of the 21st century Sea Island1-8777-346-0432SEAISLAND.COM Confronting the gravest injustice of the 21st century The Guildty and the Damned: Poisoning the planet enriched its wealthiest and condemned its poorest. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:nyo/12oct20:37n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl TEN MONTHS SINCE China acknowledged the first outbreak of the coronavirusin Wuhan, and seven months since the who declared it a global pandemic,there's nowhere on the planet that's been hit harder than New York State, wherealmost 33,000 people have died, most of them during a terrifying surge inMarch and April. We spokein early October, when a small rise in cases was beginning to appear, as had beenforecast since the start of the pandemic, and the presidential campaign was taking whatseemed like a decisive turn away from Trump, Cuomo's frequent pandemic sparring partner. Yet I look around, especiallyat our peer countries in Europe, and I seethe U.S. has fared poorly compared withmost of our peer countries but not categoricallyworse in deaths per million,for instance.9 Outside the countries ofEast and Southeast Asia, there are veryfew success stories anywhere. In March, as it became clear thatthe federal government did nothave enough medical equipmentand protective gear to go around,President Trump instructedgovernors to procure ventilators,gloves, and respirator masks ontheir own. [Extracted from the article]

The answeris actually quite simple: the overwhelmingage skew of the disease, which--in the timeof vaccines, breakthrough cases, and Delta-weare still, as a public, hugely underestimatingand which is governing the post-vaccinepandemic landscape as clearly as itdid the pre-vaccine landscape. On September22, the FDA authorized booster doses of thePfizer vaccine for the elderly, high-risk individuals,and those with frequent exposurebut not the population as a whole; later inthe same week, the CDC director overruledinternal advisers to make the same recommendation. Intelligencer IN MID-SEPTEMBER, King County, Washington, in whichSeattle is located, released an eye-popping slide about vaccineefficacy and breakthrough prevalence: Vaccines had reduced therisk of infection from covid sevenfold, county data showed, andreduced the risk of hospitalization and death 41-fold and 42-fold,respectively. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:NYO/27apr20:41n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl IF BERNIE SANDERS is the politician Occupy Wall Street dreamed of, Thomas Piketty is the closest thing we've gotten to the great theoretician of our era of inequality (and the populism and political dysfunction it has produced). Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which came out in France in 2013 and in the U.S. six months later, was the biggest best seller Harvard University Press had ever published (despite being nearly 700 dense pages long); it managed to smuggle an abstract equation into quasi-pop discourse (r>g, Piketty's shorthand for the fact that the returns to capital have been greater than the growth of the economy as a whole) and is now the subject of a surprisingly light documentary of the same name (in which Piketty stars). The economist William Nordhaus recently proposed a similar approach to climate-ditching the U.N. and going to a WTO-model "climate club." A layman might look at the history and say, "It's those who have access to capital who can buy distressed assets, and, as a result, unless there is really dramatic intervention, it will always be the forces of capital that benefit from the crisis.". [Extracted from the article]

It's Greta's World: But it's still burning. The crowd that welcomed her was made up of television and print media, activists pumping in the air signs like THERE IS NO PLANET B, and proud parents and teenage climate strikers she'd inspired, singing in rounds, to the tune of "Frére Jacques", "Welcome, Greta, welcome, Greta/To New York". Greta hung back nervously as she was introduced by two local climate strikers: Alexandria Villaseñor, a 14-year-old who moved to New York from California last fall for a single school year while her mother pursued a master's degree at Columbia and quickly started striking weekly in front of the U.N., inspired by Greta's December call to action, and Xiye Bastida-Patrick, a 17-year-old from Mexico who moved to the U.S. because of her parents' work on climate change and whose phone bore the sticker GRETA HAS A POSSE. I should say a second full-length book, because Greta's parents wrote their own account of their daughter's troubled childhood and climate awakening, Scenes From the Heart, first published in 2018, when Greta's mother-a successful opera singer who was once Sweden's competitor in the Eurovision Song Contest-was still the most famous member of the family. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses destruction and nature of wildfires in Los Angeles (California). It mentions the attributes, speed and intensity of wildfires raised by the winds. It also gives the responsibility of emerging wildfires to changing climate conditions. Eric Garcetti, a mayor of Los Angeles, states that wildfires will be stopped only when Earth relaxes into a more predictable weather state. The struggle and difficulties while trying to extinguish of firefighters are also explained.

The article offers information on the carbon capture and storage for greenhouse gas mitigation. Topics discussed include prevention of climate change with renewable energy system; and impact of the Green New Deal and public investment and public works in carbon dioxide mitigation; and decarbonizing the American economy entirely by 2030.

The article examines the issue of global warming and the understanding of climatologists and researchers on the future of planet Earth. Topics include the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report which predicts four degrees of warming starting 2021, the decline of food supply and crop yields due to global warming and the increase in the formation of ozone which shortens the life spans of humans.

The article discusses the socio-economic aspects of life of people in the New York City, focusing on the impact of election of U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump, as of December 2016. It states historical facts related to the City, like the 1927 Klan riot, and mentions social conditions of the city like introduction of stop-and-frisk law in the city. It notes that significance of election of Trump in lives of rich people of the City.

The article offers brief information on American soccer player Gyasi Zardes.

The article reports on the social implication of internet considering various issues associated with it such as election corruption, violation of privacy, and psychological manipulation. Topics include the development and introduction of the advertising model of internet, the political corruptions associated with the internet and the presidency of Donald Trump, and the control of security of technology built by architects and programmers in Silicon Valley.

The article presents the author's comments on the sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and whether aliens are real or just a fantasy. As reported, liberals have been mocking the news stories about aliens' visit to the earth. The author mentions a Pentagon report, which featured two videos of aerial encounters, and calls it just one instance in a recent search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence (SETI) efforts.

INTELLIGENCER Tomorrow ON THE FIRST DAY of June, Peru formally updated its covid-19death toll, nearly tripling a previous estimate and makingthe country not just the place in the world with the longest andstrictest lockdown but also the one with the most lethal pandemic:180,000 dead in a population of about 33 million. On June 3, following months of pleadingby progressive advocates, Joe Bidenannounced that the U.S. would donate 25million "spare" vaccines to countries in need,promising another 55 million to follow. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the disappearance of industrial honeybee populations in the U.S. and Great Britain due to stress on colonies. Topics covered include speculation that honeybee deaths portend a disaster associated with climate change, the role of honeybee pollination in the production of food, evidence that the pesticide-resistant strain of the varroa mite and pesticides themselves are causing the collapse of honeybee colonies, and the lack of data on trends for populations of wild bees.

But, like, use Immunology and Biology 101.We created the vaccines to look exactlylike the natural virus. INTELLIGENCER Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells GLO:nyo/15feb21:14n1.jpg PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): The subwayon February 1. gl SINCE ALMOST THE BEGINNING of the pandemic, Harvard'sMichael Mina has been among the country's most outspokenepidemiologists, urging the public-health apparatus toward a moreresponsive and creative approach to managing the crisis. The U.S. could have said, "Okay,we're going to back two vaccines that areagainst the spike protein only", and thenmaybe try to figure out some other vaccines,like multi-protein vaccines, multi-peptidevaccines, live attenuated vaccines,killed vaccines--all different sorts. [Extracted from the article]

INTELLIGENCER VI Biden will occupy the highest office,but nearly everything below is broken,blocked, or locked into dysfunction ON WEDNESDAY, as vote totals grew slowly toward a likelyBiden presidency, more than 100,000 new Americancoronavirus cases were reported--a record for a countrythat has already experienced two devastating pandemicpeaks. Faced with a likely Republican Senate,Biden has dim prospects for filibusterreform, criminal-justice reform, or courtreform, not to mention other meaningfullegislative action like a public-health-care option or the $2 trillionclimate plan around which Biden--surprisingly, laudably--actually built ablitz of closing-message ads. And some on the left fantasizedabout a Trojan-horse presidency--fuddy-duddy Biden, the Democrats'Gipper, letting the Warren and Berniewings of the party at least into the room, ifnot handing them full control. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles Oliver Sacks, author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." He struggled with writer's block and would spend hours every day swimming in Long Island Sound in New York. His first book was "Migraine" in 1971, followed by "Awakenings." He lives in an apartment in one building and Greenwich Village and works in a second building next door. He will turn 80 years old in July 2013 and is blind in one eye.

An interview with British novelist Martin Amis is presented. He comments on his new book "Lionel Asbo: State of England." When asked about the London riots, Amis says these incidents are usually triggered by excessive policing. He compares the U.S. and British press and talks about the English press' interest in him.

The article the discusses the personal style of Grammy Award-nominated rap artist Nicki Minaj. Apart from his musical talent, the rapper is mostly known for her fashion sense, punctuated by her use of candy-colored dichromatic wigs improbably flattering gear-asymmetric sculptural costumes. Minaj's breakthrough album is "Pink Friday," released in 2010. Her upbringing and her close collaboration with fellow rappers have all influenced her music brand.

Intelligencer People don't trustthe experts becausethe experts don'ttrust the people. The same week, a major study ledby Berkeley's Solomon Hsiang exploring theeffect of lockdowns across the world foundthat, in the U.S., social- distancing andshelter-in-place guidelines prevented asmany as 60 million additional cases. Perhaps the most illuminatingcomparison is this one: The U.S. has about4 percent of the world's population andabout 26 percent of its covid cases--morethan twice as many as the next country,Brazil, and more than 20 times the officialnumber reported by China, the world'smost populous country (and the one wherethe coronavirus first appeared). [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses lack of tracking devices such as cameras to monitor sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's death in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and compares his death with John F. Kennedy's death that ripped a hole through the fabric of trustworthy, gray-flannel-suit reality.

The article offers information on the increase in microplastic marine pollution by 2050 to such an extent that there would be more plastic in the water than fish, according to a study by The Royal Society. Topics discussed include China, Indonesia, and Thailand will dump more plastic waste into the ocean than the entire rest of the world combined; no effect of plastic bag bans in reducing plastic pollution; and politics surrounding the plastic bans.

An introduction to a section of the journal is presented which includes articles on topics including radical propositions about what the world could look like in 20 years in the field of technology, sex, the law.

The article features screenwriter Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his 1981 novel titled "Midnight's Children." The film is directed by Deepa Mehta. It claims that Rushdie played a cameo role in the film "Bridget Jones's Diary." The opinion of Roald Dahl on Rushdie is also cited.

The author describes advances in crispr, a bacteria-based gene-therapy technique capable of changing a particular part of genetic code efficiently and cost-effectively to treat diseases and extend life. He cites the cure of a one-year-old girl's leukemia by British researchers through gene therapy. He talks about the promise of treating a rare form of blindness by biotech company Editas and increasing muscle mass and extending life through telomerase gene therapy by biotech start-up BioViva.

The article discusses the paper, titled "Humans As Superorganisms," by Peter Kramer and Paola Bressan of the University of Padua in Italy. Topics tackled in the paper include the selfish entities in the human body, the effects of superoganisms on human behavior, viruses and parasitic diseases that colonized the DNA, foreign human cells, and the phenomenon called parasitic or vanishing twins.

The article presents a screenwriting master class in three act on how screenwriter Aaron Sorkin assembled the movie "Steve Jobs." It discusses the screenwriting approach to the movie that include building the movie toward a scene that has nothing to do with technology, making sure that the disagreement between Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak shows that both are right, and playing out the ouster of Jobs in crosscuts.

The article offers guide to standing on line. Tips include covering cough, not smoking, using time to tweet at the airline, offering to buy the security guard coffee, and being aware of the people listening to a conversation. Data presented shows the directional bias that leads people to head to their right when choosing a line and the differences with the time spent on an express checkout, cash-only line and credit card line in groceries. Another suggestion is to hire someone to stand on line.

The article relates how screenwriter Aaron Sorkin assembled the biographical film "Steve Jobs," about Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Topics covered include the way by which the film is structured like a close-quarters play, how Sorkin assembled the three discrete acts that comprised the movie and the crosscuts for the depiction of Jobs' ouster from Apple.

The article discusses the highlights of the paper "Humans as Superorganisms" by psychologists research scientist Peter Kramer and Paola Bressan of the University of Padua. Topics covered include the case of American woman Lydia Fairchild who reportedly exhibits chimerism, the emergence of the superorganism theory, and the kind of twin growth called fetus-in-fetu. It also discusses the viruses and parasitic diseases that could affect a person's DNA.

The article looks back in 1971 when a novelist named Clifford Irving living on Ibiza island hatched a plan to publish a fabricated autobiography of Howard Hughes, the billionaire tool magnate, aviator and gonzo movie producer.

The article looks back in 1956 when an estimated 50 million Americans watched the episode of the television show "Twenty-One." Viewers witnessed the American meritocracy trial between a Jewish former soldier Herb Stempel from Queens borough in New York City against Brahmin second-generation Columbia faculty member Charles van Doren. The audience showed boredom to Stempel in the forum. A House of Representatives subcommittee investigation resulted to the resignation of Van Doren.

The article states that one of the reasons why people should love New York is that it promotes cultural products like the novel "The Marriage Plot," by Jeffrey Eugenides.