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With Corona variants flying all over the world, you’re probably not, so let’s take an armchair trip to Florence to see the Jenny Saville exhibition.    We trained up to Florence on October 20, just to see it, and despite missing the “fast” train and having to take the “locale,” which extended a one-hour trip into 2.5 excruciating hours, it was well worth it.   The exhibition runs until February 20 of next year, so—virus permitting--you might be able to catch it (no pun intended). The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Florence and supported by Gagosian (Saville's gallery).  It is sited at five different venues:   the Museo Novecento , a public museum; the Museo di Palazzo Vecchio , a city museum; the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo , ultimately a Vatican operation; the Museo degli Innocenti , a private charitable museum; and the Museo di Casa Buonarroti , (as in Michelangelo), another private museum.   Because of the various public, religious, and ...

As we analyze the results from COP26, which ended yesterday in Glasgow, it is useful to recall what the Sixth Assessment Report from Working Group 1 of the International Panel on Climate Change -–the U.N.’s climate tracking team -- said the world MUST do by 2030 in order to “K eep 1.5 alive !”   Fr om my August 12, 2021 post (emphasis mine): For example, the report finds that to get on track for the emission cuts required by 2030, the world needs to: ·        Accelerate the increased share of renewables in electricity generation five times faster ; ·        Phase out coal in electricity generation five times faster ; ·        Reduce the carbon intensity of electricity generation three times faster ; ·        Accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles 22 times faster than the significant rates of adoption in recent years; ·    ...