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Blog posts by LWV Climate Interest Group

6/26/2022

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The LWV US Climate Interest Group is an official group organized under LWV US. They regularly contribute blog posts for the LWV US Blog.  Here is a summary of the four posts they have shared to date, with links:  
The Economic Cost of Climate Change  by by Diz Swift, Dan Zalles, and Carolyn Caywood, June 2022
  The need for action has gone beyond individuals making small changes. We need broad, strong public policies to decrease the costs of climate change.  This post takes aim at identifying policy changes needed now.  

How Changing our Economy can Protect our Planet  April 2022 
  This post examines our personal roles in combating Climate Change.


Climate Change Threats to Food and Water:  by members of the League of Women Voters Climate Interest Group, Water Team and Food, Soils, and Agriculture Team . March 2022
  This post refutes the assumption that water is both available and safe to drink and that our food supply is adequate may not be true in the future. 

What I Learned at the UN Climate Change Conference:  by Emily Polakoski, November 2021
  Emily Polakoski was a delegate observer for League of Women Voters to the UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow.  In this post, she writes about her experience and learnings, including Feminist Climate Justice.

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