[Link] Does Global Warming Make Rice Taste Better?

Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com

Steamed, scorched, pounded or fried, rice always delivers. The adaptability of rice is in part what makes this staple the culinary cornerstone for half of humanity.

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[Link] Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project fails to meet target

Read: 14/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project in Western Australia has failed to meet its target to lock away greenhouse gases from a major gas processing plant.

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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.

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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.

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[Link] Big tobacco got caught in a lie by Congress. Now it’s the oil industry’s turn

Read: 17/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Two weeks from today, Darren Woods will face a potential doomsday moment before the US Congress. As the CEO of ExxonMobil, Woods was paid $15.6m last year to run the richest, most powerful private oil company in history.

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