- A group of investors representing $32T (twice the US GDP) have called for reducing coal usage and fossil fuel subsidies because they estimate climate change has the potential to be 4 times worse than the Great Recession.
- Even with an 83% drop in Bitcoin’s price, trading volumes on Turkish cryptocurrency exchanges increased by 37 percent because cryptocurrencies are seen as more reliable.
- Death by guns in America hit a new record of 39,773 in 2017. That’s an over 16% increase since 1999. The majority, 23,854, were suicides.
- A study of solar panels in the US found 1.47 million instead of the 1.02 million expected. That count is arguably low.
Pretending Not To Panic 