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HuffPost's This New World
HuffPost's This New World for March 29th 2021
Peter Burgess
Goodbye from This New World
HuffPost's This New World
March 29th 2021 ... 8:05 AM (29 minutes ago)
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Goodbye From This New World
Dear readers, welcome to the last This New World email.
We have spent the past three and a half years documenting some of the huge global problems we face — from climate change to inequality — and spotlighting those at the forefront of efforts to tackle them.
Our stories have taken us around the world: to Brazil, Australia, Kenya, Sweden, South Korea and Thailand, among many other countries. We are proud to have covered so many underreported stories and to have brought you journalism that didn't just flag the problems but also revealed the solutions being developed: the fixes, the alternatives, and the people behind them. We aimed to tell stories in a way that gives hope for the future, that shows there are answers to the crises we face.
But most of all, we're proud of the community that came together along the way — you, our readers! Thank you for reading, engaging and getting in touch. It meant the world to us.
For now, we'll leave you with 10 of our favorite stories from across the series. We hope you enjoy them.
Goodbye!
Laura
P.S. There are plenty of other great HuffPost newsletters that might interest you — click here to check them out.
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10 Of Our All-Time Favorite Stories
- Could Seaweed Help Save Us From Climate Catastrophe? “A couple of years ago, I would never have believed it,” one scientist said. “I’ve never seen anything like this.” [HuffPost]
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- Heatwaves Kill People More Than Any Other Weather Disaster. These Cities Have A Plan. Climate change is making cities unlivable for millions. Surviving rising temperatures means tackling inequality and rethinking who cities are really for. [HuffPost]
- The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change A three-year UN-backed study from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has grim implications for the future of humanity. [HuffPost]
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nature-destruction-climate-change-world-biodiversity_n_5c49e78ce4b06ba6d3bb2d44 - It’s Time For America To Get Serious About Fixing The Trains Instead of spending billions to bail out airlines, advocates argue for a more carbon-friendly pandemic investment: railroad travel. [HuffPost]
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-trains-travel-climate-change_n_5ef08f5fc5b627efb3967e23
txt00020383 - The Radical Idea Of Making Sure Everybody Has Enough Money To Live On The idea of a universal basic income is going mainstream as the coronavirus pandemic collapses economies and wipes away millions of jobs. [HuffPost]
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/universal-basic-income-money-to-live-o_n_5fad6e41c5b6cae94043d194
txt00020381 - Light Pollution Is Taking Away Our Night Skies. Here’s Why That Matters. Some cities and states are trying to protect our night sky “for the health and wellbeing for all living things.” [HuffPost]
- How Black Farmers Are Trying To End Centuries Of Racism In America’s Food System Prejudice, violence and poverty have pushed black farmers off their land. A growing movement is calling for reparations. [HuffPost]
- How We Got Conned Into Drinking Bottled Water — And How We Can Stop In just a few decades, water went from a common resource to an incredibly popular packaged commodity with a serious environmental footprint. [HuffPost]
- This Community Is Striving To Rebuild One Of The Poorest Places In America Battered by poverty, discrimination and climate change, Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation are raising homes – and hope – for the next generation. [HuffPost]
- The Coronavirus Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Work In America But it just might clear the way for more empathy, more flexibility and more humanity. [HuffPost]
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