Ethiopia
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A building El Niño in 2018 signals more extreme weather for 2019
If the Pacific Ocean-warming effect does take place, expect next year to be the hottest ever recorded.
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Ethiopian farmers made a desert bloom again
Ethiopian farmers innovate to fight drought -- and win big.
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Africans are pretty concerned about this climate change mess we made
Forget ISIS and economic stability. Folks from Burkina Faso to Kenya are more worried about global warming.
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Climate refugees are already finding asylum in Seattle
The Pacific Northwest is a refuge for people fleeing drought, deluge, and monster storms.
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An Ethiopian zoo has lions unlike any others on earth
Zookeepers were convinced that these lions were really something special. And it turns out, they were right.
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The population challenge up close and personal
Ethiopia has one of the world's highest fertility rates -- 5.4 births per woman -- but also a pioneering program that's spreading family planning.
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Why the climate movement needs more Ethiopian-style activists
Of all the amazing stories that emerged from last month’s historic International Day of Climate Action, the one that really caught my eye (and made my jaw drop in disbelief and admiration) was that of 15,000 Ethiopian students swarming though the streets of Addis Ababa brandishing 350 signs and whooping it up big time in […]
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Tales from a trek to Ethiopia with a Seattle coffee roaster
I have spent the past year traveling the globe with Seattle coffee roaster Caffé Vita in their search for coffee, and I have the more enviable and slippery task of seeking out stories. Many Grist readers know that coffee is the second most heavily traded commodity on the planet, but unlike the elephant in the pole position (oil), we hear very little about the realities of the cherry-red fruit on which we are also dependent.
As long as Grist lets me, I will throw out some thoughts from the coffee road, and the other "tablemaking" adventures in which I routinely find myself. Ethiopia is considered the birthplace of coffee (although Yemen likes to take credit as well) and many a book could be written about what separates coffee production in Ethiopia from the rest of the bean-producing countries. Coffee is essential to the culture -- over 50 percent of the crop stays in country. It is not a colonial crop, and the passionate relationship to the bean results in some unprecedented global showdowns. But today I am pondering the tension between the two main stimulants in the land of Sheba.
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Ethiopian leader lays out the real inconvenient truth on climate
Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia, laid out the, ahem, inconvenient truth: That countries like his suffer because of what countries like ours have done, and that a world-wide cap-and-trade treaty would have to allow countries like Ethiopia to sell carbon allocations to countries like the United States.
He says the funds would be used to invest in green energy. Of course, they could also end up spent on Ethiopia's continuing quest to take over Somalia, so, it seems, there would have to be some oversight here.
Broadly speaking, though, this is a justice problem, and one that will be politically difficult to solve. Blair made the point earlier that if you say that solving global warming requires less consumption, you'll lose the argument. But if you suggest more accurately that saving the Earth from climate change will create new consumption choices, and that making the right ones will help the environment, then people will be convinced.
Creating the will to subsidize a real green revolution in the developing world will certainly require a similar analysis and framing.