| | | | | Denmark's Klimarådet, or national council on climate change, says Danes must change their diet to meet the country's climate goals by 2050. Or as one headline put it, they need to eat "less roast pork, more lentils." At the moment, Danes eat about twice the global average of animal food products. (Americans are closer to three times more.) | | The Klimarådet recommends serving less meat in communal kitchens, taxing food's carbon emissions and labeling climate impact. None of these, I suspect, will sway many diners to give up roast pork, as the council itself admits. The barrier to changing eating habits, it writes, is that a climate-friendly diet is not the norm. So how to change that? It's worth revisiting what has made Tesla successful: Make something people really, really want. | | Tesla aimed to build "an electric car without compromises" by capitalizing on what batteries and electric motors do better, and giving it a futuristic sheen. It's no mistake that Tesla's four best-selling models nearly spell out "SEXY" — S, 3, X and Y because Ford already had the Model E. And norms shifted. People have bought Teslas en masse. Tesla is the world's most valuable automaker, and the rest of the auto industry is playing catch-up. | | Can lentils and the like follow this strategy? I think so. The humble legume, once buried in the royal tombs of ancient Egypt, should retake its place among the pantheon of delicious dinner items. Not only does it deliver much of the protein and essential nutrients of meat without all the fat and cholesterol, it is delectable. | | How tasty? Well, here is a recipe that has converted everyone I know — meat eaters and vegetarians alike. The secret? Braising lentils in red wine, just like you would a roast. Generous on the pour. If you use black or beluga lentils, it puts the dish into divine territory. If Danes, or Americans, want a more climate-friendly diet, we need more recipes like these — and dinner hosts who offer them to their guests. Send me your own recipes (and forward to a friend). | |  | | There are a lot of amazing climate visualizations out here. And then there's the "climate spiral," a record of monthly temperature anomalies between the years 1880 and 2022. | | It shows in chilling — fiery? — detail just how much hotter it's getting every year. Watch it here with updated data for 2022. | | | Where should you live in the era of intensifying climate change? It depends. Vermont and Maine are often cited as among the best-protected places overall. But the consulting firm Moody's Analytics ran its own analysis specifically looking at heat, drought and sea level rise. | | | The Midwest, it found, was among the least-vulnerable regions, while cities like New York and San Francisco were among the most exposed. | | | Wolves are back. The wild canines are now roaming the United States from Montana to New Mexico. On the southern border, the endangered Mexican gray wolf population has rebounded to 241, according to the latest count. Below, a volunteer carries a sedated wolf during an annual survey. | | | (Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team/AP) | | Still, the animals' future remains uncertain because of hunting, poaching, lack of genetic diversity and wolf-livestock conflicts. | | | Hurricane winds will reach farther inland, threatening millions of Americans, a Washington Post analysis found. Check out how this will affect your Zip code. U.S. intelligence officials are exploring how climate engineering could spark a new war: "If you don't understand it, you can't manage it." California's almond trees, the source of 80 percent of the world's supply, are blossoming amid record rainfall and snow in the Golden State. A company plans to use Earth's heat to cool the planet by pulling carbon out of the sky. | | From elsewhere: Bloomberg followed the Ford F-150's troubled trail of aluminum to the Amazon, highlighting the need for greater materials transparency as the clean energy transition accelerates. Can Los Angeles escape traffic hell by making its streets safer for kids? Some are trying to reclaim children's "right to roam." | |  | | I'll leave you with a bit of frontier wisdom from Katie in Moab, Utah. "Sometimes, the oldest ideas are among the best," she wrote. "How hard is it to air dry clothes? Just hang them up and come back in 2 days to put the clothes away. Energy saved and clothes life extended." | | | (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives) | | Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Climate Coach in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. | | See you next Tuesday, Michael Coren, Climate Coach | | And did you know I read all your emails? Be part of the Climate Coach community. Send favorite recipes, climate questions, or photos of how global warming is changing where you live to climatecoach@washpost.com. | | | | | | | | | |
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