The issue can be overwhelming. The science is complicated. Predictions about the fate of the planet carry endless caveats and asterisks.
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So we’ve put together a list of quick answers to often-asked questions about climate change. This should give you a running start on understanding the problem.
There were many late nights during Thomas’s time at a private equity firm, but two of them really stand out. On the first, he was at a bar. Earlier in the day, his boss had let him know that he was the top performer in his cohort. Over drinks that evening, he struck up a conversation with a partner at a rival firm. “You’re the guy who closed two deals in six months, aren’t you?” the man asked. It was a moment Thomas had dreamed of and worked for since leaving his small town for college, the first in his family, years before.
Minimalism, downsizing, tiny houses. Experiences above objects.Decluttering and simplifying your lifestyle. Over the past few years the idea that the road to happiness may actually be paved with less, not more, has become a first-world obsession for millions of people around the globe.
In the fall of 2016, a pop song was released in Japan. “Daddy’s Car,” derivative of a Beatles tune, had a soothing beat and vaguely uplifting lyrics: “Good day sunshine in the backseat car / I wish that road could never stop.” The ditty was distinctive for its authorship. Sony’s Computer Science Laboratories in Paris produced the song, which was written by an artificial intelligence (AI) system called Flow Machines. The melody and harmony were composed by AI, and a human musician mixed the sound and wrote lyrics for the track.