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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Midterm Elections Deliver a Stunning Return to the Status Quo</strong> - The red wave never materialized, Trump’s handpicked candidates underperformed, some new faces emerged—but the country appears as evenly divided as ever. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-midterm-elections-deliver-a-stunning-return-to-the-status-quo">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Unlikely Victory of John Fetterman</strong> - In the early hours of the morning, as it became clear that Fetterman had won his crucial Senate race, his watch party turned from tension to celebration. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-unlikely-victory-of-john-fetterman">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The 2022 Midterm Elections: Live Results Map</strong> - The latest vote counts, news, and updates from the U.S. House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/midterm-election-2022/live-results-map-senate-house-governors-races">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Counting Through Conspiracy Theories in Arizona’s Midterms</strong> - On Tuesday, equipment malfunctioned at scores of polling places in Maricopa County, already a hotbed of election denialism. Would local officials be able to reassure the public? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/counting-through-conspiracy-theories-in-arizonas-midterms">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Kingdom of Antonin Scalia</strong> - This Supreme Court has embraced his doctrine of judicial modesty in an imperious fashion. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-kingdom-of-antonin-scalia">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The Biden-Xi sit-down the world’s been waiting for</strong> -
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<img alt="President Joe Biden in front of the Chinese flag." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/9-TzHrpDZ2nrPHMFDcSbC-yBdIc=/548x0:4500x2964/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71621807/1236590781.0.jpg"/>
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President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 15, 2021. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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Stakes are high and expectations low for their first face-to-face meeting as heads of state.
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For the first time as president, Joe Biden will meet President Xi Jinping in person on Monday at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and the expectations couldn’t be lower.
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Biden arrives having recently amped up the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/7/27/23277664/chips-act-solve-chip-shortage-biden-manufacturing">economic war on China</a>, with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/10/china-taiwan-strait-xi-reunification/">tensions over Taiwan high</a>, and much of Congress standing behind this more bellicose posture. Bipartisan quarters in Washington have largely internalized <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2022/9/19/23320328/china-us-relations-policy-biden-trump">a hawkish view of China</a> that sees the country as a rising power that the US needs to win against, whatever exactly winning means. A series of escalatory measures has led some on the Chinese side to get the sense that the US policy of containment is back. The Biden administration has, in many ways, doubled down on former President Donald Trump’s approach to <a href="https://www.vox.com/23130583/biden-asia-china-foreign-policy.">countering China</a>. What’s been missing is an affirmative vision of what “winning” against China would look like.
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Meanwhile, Xi leaves China after, until recently, the pandemic kept him confined to its borders. He has just <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/23403324/xi-jinping-china-worldview-soviet-union-arab-spring">further consolidated power</a> in a third term following <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/10/23/23419022/xi-jinping-third-term-communist-party-china-congress">China’s Communist Party Congress</a> last month.
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The two have talked on Zoom in the past two years, and had met extensively during the Obama years. But for their first in-person meeting, the White House has set remarkably low expectations. There is unlikely to be a joint statement. “I don’t think you should look at this meeting as one in which there’s going to be specific deliverables announced,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Thursday.
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Instead, Biden said he wants to lay out “what each of our red lines are, understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of China, what I know to be the critical interests of the United States, and to determine whether or not they conflict with one another.”
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The meeting encapsulates the accentuated set of strains that now define the US-China relationship — and the lack of any set goals for the confab suggests how important it is to maintain the current power balance, however tenuous it is. Détente, let alone a new conception of stable and productive relations, seems a far way off.
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“To put a fine point on it, it’s an inflection point, because the relationship stands at a point at which it could spiral downward very, very rapidly,” says Evan Medeiros, a Georgetown professor who served on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council. “There is a 1950s quality to the US-China competition.”
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Can the Biden-Xi meeting help calm tensions?
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For Biden, whose foreign policy outlook is very much driven by personalities and personal relationships with world leaders, the Xi meeting may be an opportunity. Few heads of state have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/us/politics/biden-china-g20-bali.html">banked so many hours</a> getting to know the Chinese leader.
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But tensions between the US and China are decidedly higher than when Xi and Biden first met as then-vice presidents of each of their countries.
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The dangers have especially peaked around US policy toward Taiwan. In addition to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/26/23278113/drama-nancy-pelosi-taiwan-travel-plans-china-policy-biden-explained">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s August visit</a> to the democratic island nation that China claims as its own, Biden has four times said that the US would <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/23/23138005/biden-gaffe-defending-taiwan-china-us-policy">defend Taiwan</a> should China invade it, in contradiction of the stated US policy of strategic ambiguity. Earlier this week, <a href="https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/2/672/files/2022/11/DWG-Kahl-221108.pdf">a senior Department of Defense official</a> emphasized that US policy toward China has not changed and that there have been no new developments in how the US sees Taiwan under its longstanding “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/asia/one-china-policy-explainer">One China</a>” policy.
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Medeiros says that the “sloppy way” the Biden administration has managed Taiwan policy will make this visit more difficult. “It’s statements and actions by the State Department and statements by the DOD,” he told me. “The Chinese are less concerned about Americans coming to Taiwan’s defense and more that the US is trying to move away from the One China policy and as a result, give Taiwan greater incentive to move in that direction.”
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One concern is that the US, by focusing on countering China’s influence, may end up trying to <a href="https://thechinaproject.com/podcast/avoiding-the-china-trap-with-jessica-chen-weiss/">out-China</a> China, according to Cornell political scientist Jessica Chen Weiss. She has <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/china-trap-us-foreign-policy-zero-sum-competition">warned</a> of the US mirroring China’s actions, and in so doing, falling into traps of zero-sum competition, such as overly protective economic measures, anti-Asian hate-mongering, and intensely militaristic rhetoric. Those tactics end up being detrimental to US interests.
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“Even though both governments have sought to prevent direct military escalation, recent statements and actions by both sides have contributed to the action-reaction cycle that has put the two countries on a collision course, particularly over Taiwan,” Weiss, who recently spent a year in the State Department, told me in an email. “In this context, their first face-to-face meeting represents an important opportunity to stabilize the escalatory spiral in US-China relations, though such efforts will take time to bear visible fruit.”
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The background dynamic, beyond US policies focused on <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/us-chip-sanctions-kneecap-chinas-tech-industry/">boxing out China’s tech prowess</a> that further heighten competition, is a world where US power is changing. The war in Ukraine has exposed the remarkable depth of American alliances in Europe and Asia, while at the same time highlighting the limits of <a href="https://www.vox.com/22951264/russia-ukraine-war-american-superpower-limits">the US as a unilateral superpower</a> and its strained clout in the emerging <a href="https://www.vox.com/23156512/russia-ukraine-war-global-south-nonaligned-movement">non-aligned countries of the Global South</a>. As Biden visits the G20 meeting as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, it’s worth emphasizing that the era of the US as the <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/06/the-myth-of-the-indispensable-nation/">indispensable nation</a>, in former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s coinage, is history. At this moment, the US depends on alliances and cooperation more than ever.
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Keeping channels of communication and negotiation open between two world powers is a good unto itself. But experts warn that little is likely to come out of the summit.
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“There are an increasing number of issues that the United States and China just cannot agree on,” Tyler Jost, a professor who researches China’s foreign policy at Brown University, told me. “As such, you can try to put in place a series of release valves or safety nets that try to manage the tension, but the fundamental tension is pretty well locked in, and the structural reasons behind it have not changed.”
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Coming from the UN’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt, where Biden warned of a “<a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/23451350/joe-biden-cop27-speech-climate-change-finance">climate hell</a>” if the US and its partners don’t get their act together, there is an urgency to advance dialogue with China over planetary issues that transcend so-called <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2022/9/19/23320328/china-us-relations-policy-biden-trump">strategic competition</a>.
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As CIA director Bill Burns <a href="https://www.aspensecurityforum.org/_files/ugd/7651fc_63a913fda0e34aa0b893fb46eccb8722.pdf">said</a> this summer, “The People’s Republic of China is the biggest geopolitical challenge that our country faces as far ahead in the 21st century as I can see, [and] the biggest existential threat in many ways is climate change.”
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Our World in Data, Vox
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More than 30 countries have already broken the link between emissions and economic growth.
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There’s a common intuition that says we can either have a healthy climate, or a growing economy, but not both.
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Economic activity, so long as it’s powered by fossil fuels — which still provides <a href="https://www.eesi.org/topics/fossil-fuels/description#:~:text=Fossil%20fuels%E2%80%94including%20coal%2C%20oil,were%20compressed%20and%20heated%20underground.">about 80 percent</a> of the world’s energy — creates greenhouse gas emissions. So it seems to follow that if we want to emit fewer greenhouse gasses, we’re going to have to sacrifice some<strong> </strong>economic growth, even though <a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/how-poverty-reduction-correlates-growth-median-incomes">raising average income levels is a key part of reducing poverty</a>.
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This creates a horrible dilemma, because fighting climate change and fighting poverty are both hugely important goals. As developing countries are making clear at the ongoing COP27 climate summit in Egypt,<strong> </strong>we really don’t want to shortchange either one.
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Fortunately, we may not have to.
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The evidence comes from <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/absolute-decoupling-of-economic-growth-and-emissions-in-32-countries">more than 30 countries</a> that have already achieved what’s known as “<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666792421000664#:~:text=Decoupling%20happens%20when%20the%20increase,be%20decoupled%20from%20economic%20growth.">absolute decoupling</a>.” That means they’ve figured out how to reduce carbon emissions while continuing to grow economically, so those goals are not incompatible. Note that these are not just per capita measures; we’re talking about total emissions and total economies here.
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Over at <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price">Our World in Data</a>, the researcher Max Roser created a great chart that shows 25 of the countries that have pulled off this feat over the past couple decades.
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As you look at it, you might be thinking: What about the fact that lots of countries outsource carbon-intensive industries to other, often poorer countries, then import the goods? Surely this chart isn’t taking all that outsourced<strong> </strong>production into account!
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In fact, it is. What the chart shows are consumption-based emissions, meaning they account for the emissions caused by stuff that was produced outside a country but consumed inside it.
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The obvious question here is: How were these countries able to decarbonize as much as they did without lowering economic growth?
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Many factors have made this possible, including technological progress on cheaper renewables and new regulations on air pollution, which enable countries to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of their economy — the <a href="https://www.eea.europa.eu/ims/greenhouse-gas-emission-intensity-of-1#:~:text=The%20GHG%20intensity%20of%20total,nuclear%20plants%20and%20renewable%20sources.">amount of carbon embedded in each economic buck</a>. Another key part of the picture has been putting a price on carbon, so that those who cause emissions have to pay for them. Carbon pricing is based on a simple idea — if the price of a product goes up, consumption goes down — and it’s turned out to be <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price">very effective in countries like Sweden, Germany, and the UK</a>.
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The countries in the chart show that there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between reducing emissions and growing the economy, as <a href="https://blog.oup.com/2016/02/economic-growth-greenhouse-gas-emissions/">many economists and laypeople once assumed</a>. And it’s not just that emissions-reducing policies are not fundamentally hostile to the economy. In fact, these policies <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/09/30/world-economic-outlook-october-2020">can actually boost economic growth</a> in the coming decades. Investing in climate change mitigation now means we’ll have to spend less in the future — on rebuilding after fires and floods, on coping with premature deaths and the lost productivity that results from them, and more.
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That means, as Roser put it over at Our World in Data, “Fighting climate change is not just compatible with fighting poverty, the two goals — to reduce emissions and to increase economic growth — actually <em>strengthen</em> each other.”
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Although we know decoupling is possible, a big question remains: Will it be enough to reduce emissions as fast as we need to — meaning, fast enough to stave off the climate emergency? After all, while some relatively wealthy countries are decoupling, <a href="https://www.cgdev.org/media/developing-countries-are-responsible-63-percent-current-carbon-emissions">other countries</a> are increasing their emissions.
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Notably, most carbon emissions in the coming decades <a href="https://www.cgdev.org/media/developing-countries-are-responsible-63-percent-current-carbon-emissions">will be coming from emerging economies</a> — like India or China — which will have mounting energy needs as they develop into middle-income countries. You don’t see those countries on the chart above, and you might ask whether it’s even possible for them to achieve decoupling anytime soon if they want to improve standards of living for their populations. (Despite the sheer size of its economy, <a href="https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPPC@WEO/POL/GRC/ITA">China’s per-capita GDP is around $21,000 — less than a third that of the US — while India’s is just around $8,000</a>.)
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Let’s look at India. According to <a href="https://www.wri.org/insights/how-india-can-grow-its-economy-through-stronger-climate-action">research from the World Resources Institute</a>, India doesn’t have to choose between climate action and its economy. By putting in place the right policies — for instance, phasing in a carbon tax — it could cut its projected emissions to one-third <em>and</em> achieve a GDP that’s 1.5 percent higher compared to business-as-usual by 2050. Along the way it would also create 40 million new jobs and avert 9.4 million premature deaths, as reducing the use of fossil fuels would lead to a drop in harmful air pollutants.
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This wouldn’t happen overnight. There are some short-term costs associated with moving away from fossil fuels and building clean-energy technologies. But it’s an investment worth making, since it would soon lead to net savings for the country. In fact, the researchers’ analysis finds that the savings from avoiding fossil fuel use would start to outweigh the cost of clean technologies within this decade. By 2050, India could be looking at net savings of $965 billion!
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India’s clean energy transformation is already underway. Some experts <a href="https://www.iea.org/commentaries/india-s-clean-energy-transition-is-rapidly-underway-benefiting-the-entire-world">say</a> that the low-carbon development pathway it creates for itself can serve as a blueprint for other developing economies.
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Meanwhile, in China, emissions are expected to peak before 2030, thanks to the <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-do-chinas-gigantic-wind-and-solar-bases-mean-for-its-climate-goals/">gigantic build-out of clean energy</a> there. The country is rapidly adopting wind and solar power and embracing electric vehicles.
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“China looks like it’s going to be the first big middle-income country to absolutely decouple — in the next five or six years, hopefully,” Zeke Hausfather, the climate research lead at Stripe and a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, told me.
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Some developing countries — say, in sub-Saharan Africa — will probably need to keep relying on fossil fuels for certain sectors of their economies over the next few decades. But there’s promise there, too. As climate and energy experts from the Breakthrough Institute <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/06/climate-cop27-emissions-adaptation-development-energy-africa-developing-countries-global-south">note in Foreign Policy</a>:
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Africa, where the majority of the world’s population growth will occur over the rest of this century, has abundant natural gas and hydroelectric resources. That could allow Africa to leapfrog coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, even while it uses oil and gas in key sectors of its economy.
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All of this explains why, for the first time, the International Energy Agency <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-russias-war-means-fossil-fuels-will-peak-within-five-years-iea-says/">recently announced</a> that it expects total fossil fuel use to peak and then decline around 2027. That’s just five years away. In its annual World Energy Outlook, it emphasizes just how momentous this is: “Global fossil fuel use has risen alongside GDP since the start of the industrial revolution in the 18th century: putting this rise into reverse while continuing to expand the global economy will be a pivotal moment in energy history.”
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Likewise, Hausfather says that even though we currently have few examples of decoupling among low- or middle-income countries (which tend to focus more on energy-intensive manufacturing), it’s just a matter of time before decoupling becomes the norm worldwide.
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“It depends on how quickly we make [clean energy] technology cheap,” Hausfather told me. “And political will certainly matters a lot, both in terms of making the technology cheap — it’s government investments that scale these things — and in speeding up the transition and pushing back against vested interests that might slow it down.”
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It should go without saying that the billions of people living in the world’s poorest countries deserve a shot at escaping poverty. They deserve to see their incomes increase to a decent level, so they can access things like medicine, childcare, and education.
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average income can <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-2020?tab=chart&yScale=linear&stackMode=absolute&country=Western%20Europe~East%20Asia~South%20and%20South-East%20Asia~Middle%20East~Eastern%20Europe~Latin%20America~Sub-Sahara%20Africa~USA~GBR~AUS&region=World">increase</a> over time, that is called economic growth
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When thinking about any country’s path to decoupling, it makes sense to look at both of these.
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In rich countries like the US, where the size of the economic pie is huge, a lot could be achieved by just slicing it up more equally. Whether these countries should also keep treating economic growth as a policy priority — or whether they should slow, stop, or even shrink their economies — is a question at the heart of the fiery <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22408556/save-planet-shrink-economy-degrowth">“degrowth”</a> debate.
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Whatever you think about that question, it’s important to realize that <em>it’s a totally separate question</em> from what the world’s poorest countries need to do. The key thing to understand here is that for low-income countries, tackling inequality alone will not be enough to address poverty. In a country like Madagascar, say, or Zambia, the economic pie is so small that it won’t be enough to meet everyone’s needs, no matter how equally you slice it.
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One way to solve this would be a redistribution of incomes from richer countries to poorer countries. Directly transferring money to poorer countries is a great thing to do, and there are <a href="https://www.givedirectly.org/">organizations that make it possible</a> for us, as individuals, to do that very effectively.
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But large-scale global redistribution seems, unfortunately, very unlikely to happen anytime soon. After all, <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/poverty-growth-needed">data shows</a> that most wealthy countries aren’t even willing to spend 0.7 percent of their GDP on aid. So we shouldn’t hold our breath for them to agree to give up even bigger shares of their wealth. And while climate reparations to developing countries are a major topic at the ongoing COP27 climate summit, that topic is being <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/climate/loss-and-damage-cop27-climate.html">carefully avoided</a> by some richer countries like the US, which has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/climate/biden-cop27-climate-reparations.html">failed to even make good on its earlier climate finance promises</a>.
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There’s no way around it, then: The poorest countries need to grow economically. And it would be monumentally unjust for the richest countries — which got the world into the climate crisis to begin with — to expect the poorest countries to forgo that growth.
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So, the hope is not that the poorest countries won’t grow. The hope is that they will grow <em>and</em> keep emissions down, and that before long they’ll feature on a new chart showing all the countries that have achieved decoupling.
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Democrats will maintain <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23425051/midterm-elections-2022-senate-majority-congress-democrats">a narrow majority in the Senate</a> for at least the next two years, according to the results from this week’s elections.
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Exactly how many seats Democrats ultimately will hold depends on the results of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23425078/midterm-elections-results-2022-georgia-senate-run-off-walker-warnock">Georgia runoff elections</a>, set for December 6. But with <a href="https://www.vox.com/e/23189178">Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s win in Nevada</a>, Democrats now hold 50 seats. That means, at the very least, the balance of power will remain the same as it is now, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as a tie-breaker. Should the party prevail in Georgia, they’ll have ended the midterms with a net gain of one seat.
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“This election is a victory; a victory and a vindication for Democrats, our agenda, and for America and the American people,” <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1591624909096189952?s=20&t=JJAthrOyhQZ-cePK2hEprg">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer</a> said in a victory speech in New York Saturday evening. “There are three things that helped [Democrats] secure the majority: One, our terrific candidates; two, our agenda and our accomplishments; and three, the American people rejected the anti-democratic, extremist, MAGA Republicans.”
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Democrats’ wins in the upper chamber come as Republicans <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/10/23451445/house-election-results-democrats-majority">appear poised to retake the House</a>, a situation that would set up a split Congress, and likely see standoffs over must-pass bills like funding the government and increasing the debt ceiling. Should Democrats control one chamber while Republicans control the other, the likelihood of more ambitious legislation passing is exceedingly slim. There is a very narrow path for Democratic victory in the House, but even if the party keeps its majority there, having tiny margins in both chambers would probably temper their policy ambitions.
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No matter what happens in the House, Democrats’ Senate majority preserves the party’s pivotal ability to continue confirming judges and executive nominees, including any theoretical pick for the Supreme Court. That’s a hugely significant power — which could have implications for decades — despite the limitations lawmakers will likely face when it comes to legislation.
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If the GOP wins the House, as seems likely, the main thing Democrats can continue to focus on is confirming judicial nominees, roles that are especially important for the party to fill after Republicans sought to stack the courts in their favor during the Trump administration.
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“The main difference between a split Congress and one controlled by Republicans completely would be Biden’s ability to fill judicial and other vacancies,” says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
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According to Demand Justice, a progressive advocacy group focused on the courts, there are 118 federal judicial vacancies that still need to be filled, including 62 that do not yet have a nomination. Over the next two years, Democrats can make important progress on these vacancies: In the first two years of President Joe Biden’s administration, they’ve already confirmed 84 judges in total, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Biden’s nominees have included more women, more people of color, and more public defenders than his predecessors, a trend that Democrats could continue in the new term.
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And that’s not the only benefit: Keeping the Senate majority also means that Democrats would still set their own floor agenda and be able to<strong> </strong>reject bills approved by a GOP-led House. Democrats will have more leverage on issues like government funding, for example, since the Senate will be able to craft its own version of these bills. Plus, upper-chamber leaders could ensure that hearings and committee time aren’t used on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-white-house-preparing-republican-investigations-midterms-afghanistan-coronavirus-2022-4">investigations of Biden and other members of his administration</a>, a key prerogative of a Republican-controlled House.
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Depending on the investigations a GOP-controlled House decides to put forth, Senate Democrats could also try to avoid any impeachment pushes that come out of the lower chamber. “The House could go ahead and vote to impeach, but there is some ambiguity about whether or not the Senate is compelled to hold a trial,” said George Washington University political science professor Sarah Binder.
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Should <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/10/23451445/house-election-results-democrats-majority">Democrats keep the House</a> — a scenario that’s increasingly unlikely, but not impossible — their narrow majorities in both chambers would probably force them to pass most legislation through reconciliation (unless the party decided to end the filibuster, something many Democratic senators have been opposed to in the past). <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23435135/2022-midterms-congress-republican-democrat">Targets for reconciliation</a> could include improvements to the Affordable Care Act, new climate regulations, as well as child care, educational, and tax policies that didn’t make it into Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.
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In general, a Democratic Senate majority means that even if they can’t pass major legislation should Republicans have control of the House, they can continue to use the Senate for important nominations, and for countering attempts by the House to increase scrutiny on the Biden administration and force spending fights over routine bills.
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<em><strong>Update, November 12, 10:25 pm ET:</strong></em><em> This story has been updated to include comments from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.</em>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Buy two get one free video games, Razer Blade, Apple, GoPro and more</strong> - We also have deals on streamers, laptops, our favorite smartwatch for the outdoors, and more. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1895882">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How “Wordle editor” became a real job at The New York Times</strong> - Scheduling the daily five-letter puzzle is more demanding than you might think. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1897094">link</a></p></li>
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