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01/23/26 UPDATE        Re: Chapter 11.3 SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: ACTION VERSUS "GREENWASHING" As the new year unfolds, there is bad news along with the good. While much of the world is rapidly transitioning to renewable energy (see the 1/19/26 update), the NY Times reports that all the brave Wall Street promises to fight global warming made in 2020 have now collapsed. In 2020, the chief executive of BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, declared that he intended to use the...

12/05/25 UPDATE               Re: Chapter 8.3. DOES EVERYTHING CAUSE CANCER? ​ Initial printings of EARTH WISE have a typo on p.134 in the middle of the first paragraph. Instead of “Six percent of cancer patients are 65 or older,” the number should be  sixty  percent. ​ However, there is good news on cancer. In the U.S., the cancer death rate has fallen by a third since 1991 . Most of this improvement is due to the decline in tobacco use and the associated drop in lung cancers (Figure 57)....