Time_USA_-_23_09_2019

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58 Time September 23, 2019


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amala Harris is Trying noT To sTep in iT. as THe California
Senator turned presidential candidate tours a beef-and-produce farm
in south- central Iowa on Aug. 11, a crouching campaign aide carefully
walks a few feet ahead, pointing out the cow droppings littering the grass.
The farmer strolling next to Harris, a bespectacled 49-year-old named
Matt Russell, wants to talk about climate change. “Farmers and rural
Americans, that’s who’s going to solve this,” Russell says to Harris as the
two stroll accompanied by a bevy of cameras in front of his red barn. “We
have the land for renewable energy, and we have the farming systems to

2050:


THE


FIGHT


FOR


EARTH


NORTH AMERICA


1910s 0.54°

Difference
in North
America’s
average
temperature (°C)
by decade,
relative to a
1910–2000
average

1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s

0.21°


0.07°


0.18°


0


0.15°


0.19°


0.29°


0.49°


0.82°


1.19°

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