Jerry Lu

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[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@PhoebeEcoSoc @EcoSoc3315 I also feel happy to see that he is willing to listen to scientists and intends to rejoin the Paris climate accord. That is just the beginning. He will definitely have some dilemmas proposing some environmental policies that may somehow hurt some companies' profits.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@naseer_nisha @EcoSoc3315 This book is an accurate description of the environment's state and optimistic guesses about how new technologies and governance models will reverse certain damages. Climate science is entirely artificial, which means that the problem is totally on humans.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@EcoSoc3315 Just a few decades ago, Iran boasted of the most environmentally friendly government in the Middle East. However, the country’s waterways are shrinking because protectionists and campaigners dare not express concerns about the environment for fear of retaliation.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

Environmental groups want N.Y. state to step up programs to combat climate change https://t.co/nqy5C6JbDe @EcoSoc3315 Advocacy groups pushed officials to vote for the $3 billion Environmental Bond Act and maintain funds for green initiatives which could trigger economic recovery.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@EcoSoc3315 The importance of nature and the environment was evident in this election as voters in the U.S. approved more than twenty conservation ballot measures. The initiatives include a large budget in new funding for land conservation, parks, climate resiliency, and habitat.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@rebeccatnewman @EcoSoc3315 Biden cares more about environmental protection than Trump. However, the presidential candidate may use this topic to attract people to vote for him. The list seems really optimistic and promising. We could supervise whether Biden successfully makes those happened.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@EcoSoc3315 Artificial light should be treated like other forms of pollution because its impact on the natural world has widened to systemic disruption. Human illumination of the planet is growing in range and intensity, creating a problem that can be compared to climate change.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@reilly_menchaca @EcoSoc3315 Jim Wright did learn a lesson from the fine he was charged for damaging our environment and then became a person who wants to make a voice as the railroad commissioner of texas. He realized that he needs to take action to reduce human's negative impact on nature.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@rebeccatnewman @EcoSoc3315 The tag, environmentally friendly, could only be used as a marketing promotion image to attract customers. Some products do not even have environmentally friendly ingredients or have significantly fewer natural compositions than those described in the adversting.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@rebeccatnewman @EcoSoc3315 The Airbus SE will change the world. New technology could help human to monitor the activity or changes in a specific area. The 5G or 6G will come before the launching since, without the high speed of the internet, processing data will be taken longer than expected.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

The Trump court and the erosion of environmental law https://t.co/t52oO0Qf2F @EcoSoc3315 Judge Kavanaugh replaced Chief Judge Roberts, and both of them recently joined the liberals of the court in opposing the destructive interpretation of the Clean Water Act as a swing vote.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@EcoSoc3315 Trump rolled back more than 125
environmental safeguards. His administration has loosened oversight of polluting industries, eroded protections for endangered wildlife and stymied Obama-era efforts to address the most daunting environmental threat: climate change.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@BloomfieldCole @EcoSoc3315 As one of the largest economies in the world, the U.S. is responsible for pushing the environmental protection process going forward. However, the U.S. does have some domestic energy-wasting issues so it could pay more attention to those problems and then assist China

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@SungHanKang1 @EcoSoc3315 I did hear that Amazon heavily uses excessive packaging. As an Amazon Prime membership user, I used to order whatever I need even several times a day. It does not send me all the items in one package. Instead, it sent me several packages, which is urgent to be changed

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@BloomfieldCole @EcoSoc3315 I believe that coronavirus will be controlled in 2021. It does temporarily slow down the previous growth in the renewables sector. I will go back to the rising trend once the “safe” vaccine comes out although it still doesn't know whether the coronavirus vaccine works

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@EcoSoc3315 Although recent brand companies' efforts through their global supply chains are still far from their goals, they have achieved environmental benefits in product design and production. However, the overall impact of consumption on the environment is increasing.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@EcoSoc3315 Capitalist economic system contributed to breaching several ecological boundaries concerning climate change, biodiversity loss, and nutrient enrichment. As damaging the natural systems that sustain it, capitalism is also leading to increasing inequality in society.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@EcoSoc3315 It is impossible to run an expanding capitalist economy while keeping its impacts within safe ecological boundaries. A greed-driven system is effectively a suicide machine that is doomed to destroy itself. The now dominant capitalist economic system is unsustainable.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@FolzKayla @EcoSoc3315 Oil prices plummeted below zero once, a historic first for the commodity. As dwindling demand caused by COVID-19 shutdowns pushed storage facilities to their brink, the price per barrel dropped to negative $37.63 for May's future contracts, bad news for oil companies.

[Jerry Lu @JerryLu21]

@BloomfieldCole @EcoSoc3315 I agree with you that sometimes not talking about a topic is the right choice. "Transition off of oil" is not an applicable proposal, especially at this particular time, which does hurt the profit of most of the oil companies whose prices are negatively affected.