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Combating Climate Change in Response to the Covid-19 Crisis

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News Summary
What major topics and issues were reported in this section?
Anything to highlight, question or comment about that news?

Guest Interview 1

Name and title of the guest(s) interviewed: Rebecca Leber
Topic:
What changes has the Trump administration made or proposed to environmental regulations?
How do those actions compare to those of the Obama administration?
Cite specific laws or regulations mentioned.

What are the impacts of the current administration’s actions?

What is the role of the EPA and EPA scientists in this?
How is the plastics industry capitalizing on COVID-19 concerns?
Is the industry using sound science to support its claims?

Guest Interview 2*

Name and title of the guest(s) interviewed: Michael Mann, climate scientist, Penn State University. Author, How to Win the New Climate War (forthcoming)

Topic:

How is loss of habitat related to COVID-19 and pathogens like it?
fill in: increase in __________________ tied to _____________

Philosophical theory of Gaia – What does it mean?
-how is it connected to the COVID19 situation?

homeostatic mechanisms – Life maintains the Earth in ________________

How do humans act like a virus?

What choices do humans have?

synergistically (look it up) Definition:

sustainability

How are science and politics connected in this context?

What are the fossil fuel companies and lobbyists doing in connection with climate change and COVID-19?

Why are the fossil fuel interests (lobbyists, some politicians) doing that?

What are differences in the costs of denial of COVID-19 as compared to climate change?

How did Australia and New Zealand manage COVID-19 early on, and how does that compare to what U.S. national leaders have done?
Which countries managed the pandemic more effectively?

Do we have to choose between jobs and the economy vs. the environment?

Decarbonize the economy – can we do it?
Define decarbonize:

How much have carbon emissions decreased during the COVID-19 shutdown?

How could the pandemic lead to more sustainable choices?
-e.g. by decentralizing our access to energy with renewables such as wind, and solar, we are less dependent on centralized, big power sources, processing, transportation, distribution and imports of concentrated energy

How are we going to get our lives back again?

How can one think of human activity like a virus?

What choices do humans have?
 - act like a virus?
 - act like a symbiot (in a synergistic way)

How has the COVID19 situation allowed greenlighting of fossil fuel industry projects and their interests?
Define greenlighting:

What opportunities has the COVID19 crisis provided for decreasing energy use and increasing efficiency?

During COVID19, what are the roles of:

Individual action
Federal (national) level
States and local governments

How does that compare to actions needed for combatting climate change?

What will we need at each of these levels?
-individual level
-international level
-national level (political actions)
-state and local elections

How much time do we have to take action to prevent catastrophic climate change?

Call in question: Is there a threat from microbes released when permafrost melts?

What does Prof. Mann say about “an ounce of prevention”?

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HW Assignment for Week 11 – Virology and the Community – ASET 101
News Summary
What significant topics and issues were reported in this section?
Deregulation of the environmental policies by the Donald Trump administration and the
rollback of the environmental rules and regulations enforced during the Barack Obama reign.
Anything to highlight, question, or comment about that news?
President Donald Trump has made getting rid of environmental policies a key feature of his administration. During the COVID19 pandemic, the EPA administrator worked to roll back the fuel standards relating to gas and oil drilling, coal power plants, and research.
Guest Interview 1
Name and title of the guest(s) interviewed: Rebecca Leber.
Topic: What can we learn about combating climate change from the response to the COVID-19 crisis.
What changes has the Trump administration made or proposed to environmental regulations?
Roll back on the rules and regulations governing fuel standards, research, gas and oil drilling, and coal power plants. Introducing a new regulation requiring automakers to achieve at least 1.5% fuel efficiency gains every year by 2025.
How do those actions compare to those of the Obama administration?
The Obama fuel regulations required automakers to reach at least 6.5% fuel efficiency resulting in public health savings and savings for the economy.
Cite specific laws or regulations mentioned.
The Congressional Review Act, which lets Congress reverse any regulations in the final phase of Congress by a simple majority.
What are the impacts of the current administration's actions?
The rollback in the rules regulating automakers has increased carbon pollution by cars. The transport sector has overtaken the power sector as the number one polluter for climate change.
The Obama administration's target towards the auto sector to have cleaner cars was a step towards combatting climate change; therefore, Tramp's relaxed regulations are undoing Obama's efforts in fighting climate change.
The lack of regulatory certainty has curtailed most of the local industries' ability to plan for the future.
What is the role of the EPA and EPA scientists in this?
They enforce the laws and regulations that have been laid down and ensure that companies comply with the rules laid down.
How is the plastics industry capitalizing on COVID-19 concerns?
The plastics industry is propagating the notion that plastic bags do not spread the covid virus instead of the re-useable ones that are dirtier, less efficient, and help spread the virus. The plastic industry has sold this message during this covid times to leverage against reusable bags by citing questionable scientific facts.
Is the industry using sound science to support its claims?
The industry is not using actual scientific facts to support its claims because there is limited information that reusable bags are the main spreaders of the covid virus. It has leveraged the little scientific data available to promote the use of plastic bags.
Guest Interview 2*
Name and title of the guest(s) interviewed: Michael Mann, climate scientist, Penn State University. Author, How to Win t...
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