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• Lemon juice, legumes and local activism: what green habits have you adopted in 2020?

  11-10-2020 21:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Guardian supporters around the world tell us about the sustainable lifestyle changes that they have committed to during lockdown – and beyond Support Guardian journalism today, by making a single or recurring contribution, or subscribingWe started to order food from the local store for curbside pickup. We went online and bought a freezer. Bought a food vacuum sealer and ordered bulk orders from our favourite butcher and fish monger. Started to stock up on other staples. We have canned and
  
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• The Guardian view on Boris Johnson's Cop26: ask if GDP growth is sustainable | Editorial

  11-10-2020 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The government needs an environmental sense of purpose that specifies the appropriate ends for economic activitySaving the planet ought to be a goal for, not a cost to, humanity. Yet this insight appears lost in the discussion about the climate emergency. Last week, it emerged that the Treasury was thinking about levying a UK-wide carbon tax. This approach, it was suggested, could be sold as a way of “raising revenue while cutting emissions”. Properly targeted taxes can change behavi
  
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• ‘Humans weren’t always here. We could disappear’: meet the collapsologists

  11-10-2020 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Deep in the French countryside, pockets of anti-capitalists and environmentalists are preparing for the end of civilisation – or even humanity itselfMichel Rosell gathers up a mass of papers and divides them into two piles. On the left are bills: a single sheet. On the right is a sheaf of letters from friends and lovers. “If the pile of letters is growing faster than the pile of bills, you’re on the right track,” says Rosell. “If it’s the other way round, you&
  
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• IMF and World Bank must act fast after Covid caught policymakers napping

  11-10-2020 12:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Tide went out for global economy in 2020 and just about everybody was caught skinny-dippingWarren Buffett once quipped it was only when the tide went out that it was possible to see who had been swimming naked. The legendary investor had companies up to their eyeballs in debt in mind when he made that comment but it now has a wider significance. In 2020 the tide went out for the global economy and just about everybody was caught skinny-dipping.Clearly, there is never a good time for a pandemic b
  
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• 'It's pretty messed up': Americans’ deadly love for tigers

  11-10-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Steve Winter, commended for his photographs of US private ‘zoos’, reveals the dark side of Netflix’s Tiger KingMore tigers are now held in captivity in the United States than survive in the wild in Asia. That is the grim statistic that underpins Americans’ growing appetites for posing for pictures with big cats and their offspring, a desire that is today being met by thousands of tigers that are caged and displayed in private roadside zoos across the US.Young tigers are t
  
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• Captured on film: Americans’ deadly love for tigers

  11-10-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Steve Winter, commended for his photographs of US private ‘zoos’, reveals the dark side of Netflix’s Tiger KingMore tigers are now held in captivity in the United States than survive in the wild in Asia. That is the grim statistic that underpins Americans’ growing appetites for posing for pictures with big cats and their offspring, a desire that is today being met by thousands of tigers that are caged and displayed in private roadside zoos across the US.Young tigers are t
  
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• RSPB calls for new laws on game bird shooting

  11-10-2020 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Charity says licensing system is needed to prevent ‘unacceptable’ damage to countryside, plus stricter enforcement of existing lawsThe RSPB is demanding new regulations and better enforcement of existing laws to control the shooting of game birds in the UK. The charity made the call yesterday at its AGM after publishing a review that found self-regulation by the shooting community had failed to address the environmental impacts of the game bird industry.Illegal killing of birds of pr
  
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• Greta Thunberg: ‘Only people like me dare ask tough questions on climate’

  11-10-2020 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The activist discusses a new film that follows her life and the role autism played in her journey from troubled child to eco championFor a teenager who first became famous for skipping school, Greta Thunberg has come a long way. The 17-year-old from Stockholm is today a global champion of the environment movement and the uncompromising scourge of climate crisis deniers. In the process, she has earned the disdain of Donald Trump and the plaudits of figures including the pope and David Attenboroug
  
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• From the archive: 1960s London prepares for a flooded capital

  11-10-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tidal waves and flooded sewers, sinking buildings and Nasa computers… How London was preparing for rising waters in 1967There was some brazenly fake news on the cover of the Observer Magazine of 19 November 1967 with the headline, ‘Thames tidal wave swamps London’. Turns out this was a mock front page to give an idea of ‘what might happen if the tides and weather combine to overcome London’s vulnerable flood defences’.There had been warnings. In 1928, people
  
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• BCG: Can a vaccine from 1921 save lives from Covid-19?

  11-10-2020 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Vaccines may cause wide-scale changes in the immune system which can boost the body's protection.
  
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• Planet Mars is at its 'biggest and brightest'

  11-10-2020 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Red Planet is unmissable in the night sky right now as its orbit aligns with Earth's.
  
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