What We Read This Week

We bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!

SCIENCE

The government’s new ‘Earthshot’ — making it cheap to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere

The U.S. government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton.
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From Grist

POLITICS

‘Generation Now.’ The Story of How Young Climate Activists Tired of Waiting for Change Took Action

Tens of thousands of children, teenagers and young adults marched in the streets of Glasgow on Friday, the fifth day of COP26, the U.N. climate conference. Carrying banners and chanting slogans, they sent a message to delegates inside the city’s conference center about what’s at stake in these complex, technical and fraught negotiations between 196 countries: their lives.

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From Time

SCIENCE

‘BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.’ WILL COP26 ACTUALLY LEAD TO CLIMATE ACTION?

Starting Oct. 31, world leaders will gather in Scotland to negotiate the terms of our future. This United Nations climate change conference, called COP26, is an opportunity for leaders to flaunt their climate actions ambition — no leader more so than President Joe Biden, who plans to attend with nearly half his cabinet. This is a show of force from the White House, an indication that political winds have shifted and the United States is prepared to be a global climate leader. Read Full Article

From Sojo

FAITH

Why Won’t Christians Get Vaccinated?

When COVID-19 first arrived in late 2019, it was barely a blink in anyone’s eye. Over months, the virus spread globally until the world had to shut down. Businesses boarded up, employees transitioned to work from home, schools turned to virtual learning experiences. Lives have been permanently changed as over 600,000 individuals in the U.S. have lost their lives to a virus. After nine months of the scientific community shifting to focus almost all research on the deadly virus, companies were able to to develop vaccines that were approved for emergency use. Doctors thought the answers to their problems had arrived. Read Full Article

From Relevant Magazine