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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Well done, Alexander! Like always. 👍😊

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Thanks for sharing your interview. It gave a clear sighted and informative discussion on climate change and what countries can do. Now if only countries will work together to really work on climate change. May this interview find its way to those leaders. Great job.👏🏼

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Thank you for sharing Alexander, I follow you for reliable and up to date information on subject. If hope is to be had for our planet, you model it for us.

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Thank you Mary for these kind words!

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

An excellent interview with even greater importance in view of the 3 countries trying to undermine COP26 by downplaying the magnitude of fossil fuels’ devastating effects on the climate crisis. This sort of nefarious greed in trying to sabotage the momentous conference at a monumentally critical juncture is criminal.

Your always important insights & clear thinking are well represented here. It’s been a while since such a good interview. Congratulations to you & to the Anews interviewer who also did a nice job. Well done!

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Kudos, kudos, kudos . . . 👏🌷

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Thank you for sharing this. Loved all the information you managed to get into a 15-minute interview. I really enjoyed listening to it. Can't (and probably shouldn't) comment on everything, so just a few thoughts ...

You reminded me of something I saw only recently. I think they called it a CO2 vaccuum. It was built by a Swiss company in Iceland. Ah, I found the link. Not sure if it can be watched outside of Switzerland, but I'll add it here anyway. The introduction is in German, but there's a short interview in English as well. (https://www.srf.ch/wissen/nachhaltigkeit/co2-wunder-island-der-groesste-co2-staubsauger-der-welt-kommt-aus-der-schweiz). What's a bit problematic here, and they explain it in the text below the video, is the amount of energy that is needed to run it. Still, a pretty interesting concept.

I hope you are right that countries or I should call them "parties" will show up at COP 26 with higher aims and also higher expectations. There certainly has been mounting pressure on governments to get their acts together on Climate Change. Fingers crossed! It's time to act and as you said, we really have to leave the path we're on and if we don't act now ... I don't even want to finish that thought.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Such a large necessary transition of the global civilization system is not to make with money either by 'morals' - it needs immediately transition-effective time for livelyhood, freedom, democracy and climate justice for all creatures: Let's start worldwide with emission-free Fridays. Global Free Fridays for the Future will reduce CO2-Emmissions immediately about 20% because most of the biggest emission plants are stopped half of the week.

Look here and please promote: https://www.change.org/free-fridays_engl

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Thank you Thilo, it is an interesting thought. Meatless Mondon and Free Fridays :-)

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

I’m so glad the interviewer let you speak, that he didn’t cut you off and ramble on himself. You are such a excellent articulate and engaging speaker. A informative interview!!!

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