April 20, 2021 Update -- According to dw.com in Germany, President of Russia Vladimir Putin will attend U. S. President Joe Biden's April 22/23 Climate Summit. Sustraitstimes.com in Singapore reported Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping will also attend.
It was widely reported U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has been in China trying to collaborate on what 34 nations, Scientific American, the United Nations Environment Programme, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-ORE.) called a "Climate Emergency." With six days before U. S. President Biden's April 22/23 Climate Summit of possibly "40 World Leaders," invitations to President of Russia Vladimir Putin and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping resulted in a maybe from Putin, and unknown from Xi Jinping. The Climate Summit, according to whitehouse.gov, will be "live streamed for public viewing" with a live video to be posted by clicking here.
Vladimir Putin is a serious angler who fished with U.S. President George W. Bush, Xi Jinping enjoys eating fish, and former U.S. President Barack Obama likes to fish, so why not ask them to fish together? The fate of island nations, Arctic tribes, and eventually all of us, could depend on it. I understand my plan may get as much traction as when I suggested to "require by international law fossil fuel emissions in all countries be immediately colored purple [nearly white purple to increase albedo] the same way rotten egg scent is added to natural gas to alert homeowners to danger of leaks," but stranger things have happened.
I know some good fishing spots.
In a related matter, congratulations to Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, for one of the best climate articles I have read in months, "‘This is it. If we don’t amp up, we’re goners’: the last chance to confront the climate crisis?" in today's issue of The Guardian.
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