Why violence is rising with global temperatures | Peter Schwartzstein

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Sunday Pick: How to solve your problems through drawing (w/ Liana Finck) | How to Be a Better Human

Liana Finck’s cartoons explore life’s big predicaments: what to make for dinner, how to leave a party without being rude, how to feel like more than a snack machine once you have a child. In today’s episode, Liana shares how drawing has become a practice for her to answer questio ...  Show more

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth | Bill McKibben

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has plunged, making it cheaper than ever to power the world without burning fossil fue ...  Show more

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